ALEPPO, Syria - UN agencies are rushing to provide urgent aid to the civilians of Aleppo and are finding fledgling signs of optimism for the future, according to Sajjad Malik, Representative of UNHCR, ...

ALEPPO, Syria—Late one January night, two balaclava-clad security officers with Syria’s new government were speeding through the streets of Aleppo in pursuit of a man who had been spotted stealing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here, 29-year-old Zainab hangs clothes to air dry at her father’s house where she has been living since she returned from Al-Hol ...

It has been seven months since Bashar al-Assad was ousted from power in Syria, thrusting the country into a new era after 54 years of rule by the Assad family. France 24’s Wassim Nasr was able to ...

The city of Aleppo before its destruction, viewed from its historic citadel (photo via Wikimedia) As if the horrors of Syria’s war weren’t already difficult to process, now there’s this: a group of ...

IN Syria, the destruction from 13 years of war has become part of the landscape. There is barely a town or city undamaged or a community untouched in the spraw­ling country of 23 million.

The fall of Aleppo this weekend surprised even the residents of Aleppo, so you can imagine how flabbergasted foreign analysts were, from thousands of miles away. As recently as a week ago, the Syrian ...

Years of civil war have turned whole areas of the city into rows of empty husks. But after the fall of Assad, Syrians have returned to their old homes determined to rebuildBy Ghaith Abdul-Ahad. Read b ...

Dust coats balconies, fuel fumes drift through cracked windows, and every step crunches on the remains of homes that never fully healed. Among these battered streets live women who have returned from ...