Assad’s regime in Syria in December 2024 felt almost unreal. “I thought the ending of my story was dying in exile,” she told ...

Thousands of Syrians have poured into the streets and public squares to mark 14 years since the country’s civil war began, ...

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Show more A fuzzy team photo from the 1980s sends Tim Whewell on a journey to track down football players from a small town in northern Syria who were once the champions of Aleppo province.

From war-torn Aleppo to the villages of Nigeria, persecuted Christians endure unimaginable hardships — but the Trinitarians ensure they are not forgotten.

An intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war. The story of Waad al-Kateab's life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives ...

The Syrian city of Aleppo, where the family lived ... The result was the 2019 documentary film “For Sama.” Amid the booming of bombs, her father entertains Sama by playing peek-a-boo over ...

The brutal civil war in Syria resulted in several Oscar-nominated documentary features – Last Men in Aleppo and The Cave, both directed by Feras Fayyad; Of Fathers and Sons, directed by Talal ...