Kurds in the new Syria want to preserve the cultural rights they gained in years of war
Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...
AP PHOTOS: Syrians returning to the town of Tel Rifaat find homes in ruins and underground tunnels
TEL RIFAAT, Syria (AP) — The long anticipated return home for residents of the Syrian town of Tel Rifaat, displaced since ...
Syria could allow Russia to keep its bases, new defense minister says
In an interview, Murhaf Abu Qasra, a onetime leader in Syria’s insurgency, discussed moves by authorities in Damascus to ...
Kurds in Syria aim to keep cultural rights gained in war
Kurds in Syria were marginalised during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described as Arabs. Now they are seizing the chance during the post-Assad transition ...
In Syria, the fighting is over, but a resource-rich region is left in limbo
Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.
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Topple, tame, trade: How Turkey is rewriting Syria’s future
Turkey didn’t orchestrate Assad’s fall, but it’s certainly cashing in on the aftermath. Now, it wants to mould Syria in its ...
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In Syria, the fighting is over, but a resource-rich province is left in limbo
That has irked Turkey, which supported the rebels now controlling Syria ... the SDF little better than the Assad government, with a Kurdish minority imposing its rule and ideology on Arab-majority ...
Post-Assad Syria: How HTS will have to compromise on its orthodoxy for a stable regime
With Islamist HTS consolidating its grip on power,there are fears that it might impose an illiberal constitution or the one ...
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Syria’s Biggest Problem
Syria’s future depends on a historic undertaking: facilitating the return of Syrian refugees to their homes in a country ...