Representatives of Syria’s warring sides sat just meters apart in separate rooms at U.N. peace talks on Thursday, but mediator Staffan de Mistura stopped short of bringing them together in what diplomats had hoped might be a minor breakthrough. Previous rounds of talks have gone...

Much has changed since Syria’s warring sides met for the last round of U.N.-brokered talks in Geneva last summer. The Islamic State group has been defeated in all its major strongholds, rebels seeking to topple President Bashar Assad have been significantly weakened and Russia, Iran,...

Shaven-headed former jihadists filled a classroom in northern Syria as a Muslim cleric taught them a more moderate form of Islam than the version they had imposed in Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliphate. Their class was in a new rehabilitation center for Islamic State members set...

When the Syrian uprising began in 2011, Karam al-Masri was a young law student in Aleppo. His schoolteacher parents had raised him to be an engaged citizen, so Masri followed anti-Assad regime protesters into the streets, and posted to Facebook the video footage he captured on his old Nokia...