A hmed al-Sharaa, Syria’s president, spoke to The Economist on January 31st in Damascus. The conversation has been translated ...

At least 144 people, including 27 children, have been killed by landmines and unexploded remnants of war since Bashar ...

Ahmed al-Sharaa, the head of Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham who this week appointed himself president of a transitional government, has packed the new administration with loyalists and has ordered ...

Officials in Syria's caretaker government were left with a state in ruins. Some fear they aren't moving fast enough to fix it ...

Sunny today with a high of 61 °F (16.1 °C) and a low of 30 °F (-1.1 °C). Mostly sunny today with a high of 62 °F (16.7 °C) and a low of 30 °F (-1.1 °C). Mostly sunny today with a high of ...

The country’s national carrier, Turkish Airlines, will resume flights to Syria on January 23rd. Map: The Economist As ... the quasi-state HTS carved out in Idlib province, in Syria’s north ...

The city was a strategic stronghold for Syrian opposition factions ... In their office in the city of Idlib, Mr Talfah shows us a stack of maps and documents, left behind by government forces.

Mostly sunny today with a high of 58 °F (14.4 °C) and a low of 33 °F (0.6 °C). Sunny today with a high of 59 °F (15 °C) and a low of 31 °F (-0.6 °C). Sunny today with a high of 61 °F (16. ...