At the heart of transforming Syria must be the development and safeguarding of women’s rights. This will prove a revealing lens through which to measure the sincerity of HTS’s professed reforms.

The head of a rebel group is now the head of Syria. How will he lead a country destroyed by civil war and sectarianism? NPR found clues in a region in northern Syria, where he governed for years.

If Syria is to rise from the Assad regime’s ashes, its people must resurrect the spirit of the 2011 uprising in the post-Assad era.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Four young Kurdish men were arrested in Afrin on Friday, a day after they raised the Kurdistan flag during a spontaneous reception for security forces affiliated with the new ...

After Assad’s fall activists urge that Syrian women's role in the nation's political future requires drafting a new ...

The Kurdish-led SDF was formed to fight the extremists, and in 2019, SDF fighters captured the last sliver of land they held, ...

A student writes on a board in a classroom, next to the flag adopted by the new Syrian rulers, at a school following an announcement of the reopening of schools by the authorities, after Syria's ...

Strict oversight of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s actions is imperative to enforce human rights standards and avert the risk of Syria becoming a new hub for Islamist extremism. Syria’s current ...

But that depends on Syria’s new leaders, and the outcome of an ongoing conflict between the Kurds and Turkish-backed rebels that’s been overshadowed by the dramatic shift from Assad rule.