The Damascus book fair draws crowds, with censorship eased in post-Assad Syria

Damascus is hosting its first international book fair since Bashar Assad fell, and publishers say censorship has almost ...

A Kurdish-majority neighborhood in Syria recovers from clashes with hope for the future

A month after violent clashes in a Kurdish-majority neighborhood in Syria’s Aleppo, tens of thousands of residents have ...
Reporters Without Borders

“Syria: the forbidden witnesses of the Assad regime” — New RSF documentary shows what it was like to be a reporter under one of the world’s worst crackdowns on journalism

Assad’s regime, journalists in Syria were spied upon, put behind bars, abducted and even killed.  After the fall of the dictatorship on 8 December 2024, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) produced a ...

US hits dozens of Islamic State targets in Syria amid base withdrawals

The 10 days of airstrikes came as the U.S. handed over the al-Tanf Garrison, a long-time base, to the Syrian military.

Syria says its forces have taken over al-Tanf base after a handover from the US

Syria’s interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa has been expanding his control of the country, and last month government forces captured wide parts of northeast Syria after deadly clashes with the SDF. A ...

8 Love Letters From Hell, in Honor of Valentine’s Day

Kim Jong Un’s letters to Donald Trump. Jeff Bezos’s saucy texts to Lauren Sánchez. Muammar Gaddafi’s professions of love for ...