Syria has unveiled a plan to eliminate Assad's chemical weapons with international support. The operation will inspect 100 ...

Revisit FRONTLINE’s documentaries on the Syrian war's devastating human toll, the journeys of refugees, the foreign interventions and the long shadow of the conflict.

Two years ago, joining a crescendo of protest around the Arab world, Syrians launched a peaceful uprising against the autocratic rule of Syrian President Bashar Assad. That dissent—met by a brutal ...

Seven years of relentless conflict in Syria have wreaked destruction that the United Nations said Wednesday had cost the country close to a whopping $400 billion. The figure was released after a ...

President Donald Trump declared in his first term that the Islamic State group was defeated and that U.S. troops would leave Syria. This weekend, a gunman linked to the Islamic State group killed two ...

WASHINGTON, October 21, 2025 – Syria’s reconstruction costs are estimated at $216 billion after more than thirteen years of conflict, according to a new World Bank report. The Syria Physical Damage ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A cemetery and the surrounding buildings in Yarmouk, a once vibrant Palestinian camp outside Damascus, show the devastating ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Sandra Joireman, University of Richmond (THE CONVERSATION) Close to 1.5 million Syrian ...

How does one destroy a country's chemical weapons equipment? In Syria, currently an active war zone, a team of international inspectors are using anything on hand to get the job done. Starting on ...

ISIS deliberately destroyed ancient monuments and sites across Iraq and Syria, including Palmyra, Nimrud, Hatra, and Mosul’s historic mosques, targeting cultural heritage as part of their extremist ...

On a ferociously hot summer morning, the inspectors stepped gingerly through an alley and cast a critical eye at the war-withered buildings in this sprawling Palestinian refugee camp on the edge of ...