In late October, Farhan and his two sons finished packing up their olive harvest to transport it to the city center of Afrin in northwestern Syria. But before doing so, they pondered the possibilities waiting for them. “Would we be able to sell our olives at a good rate? Would the...

Hussein Khattab, a freelance reporter for the Arabic service of Turkey’s state-run broadcaster TRT, was assassinated in the Syrian city of Al-Bab on Dec. 12 by unidentified assailants on motorcycles. Ammar Hamou, a well-known Syrian journalist, was a colleague and friend of the...

The bread crisis continues all over Syria, and while the people stand for hours in queues to get their rations of a staple of their diet, the regime’s Minister of Local Trade and Consumer Protection Talal Barazi spoke out not with promises to solve the crisis but with to vow harsh punishment...

 Turkish forces neutralized at least four more YPG fighters in northern Syria, Turkey’s National Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. The Kurdishh militantats were attempting to disrupt peace in the Operation Euphrates Shield region and were neutralized in an operation by Turkish...