Colorful letter beads—objects never meant for the forge—melt into the steel billet, adding wild, unpredictable patterns to ...

Coming to power after sixty years of the Assad family’s dictatorship in Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa and his interim government have a lot of work to do ...

Since Bashar Assad’s regime was toppled on Dec. 8, 2024, nearly 1.5 million externally displaced Syrians have voluntarily returned to their home country. That number comprises about one-quarter of all ...