A war-damage assessment report issued Wednesday by the Syrian Ministry of Local Administration and Environment found that ...

Seven years of relentless conflict in Syria have wreaked destruction that the United Nations said Wednesday had cost the country close to a whopping $400 billion. The figure was released after a ...

Close to 1.5 million Syrian refugees have voluntarily returned to their home country over the past year. That extraordinary figure represents nearly one-quarter of all Syrians who fled fighting during ...

President Donald Trump declared in his first term that the Islamic State group was defeated and that U.S. troops would leave Syria. This weekend, a gunman linked to the Islamic State group killed two ...

Two years ago, joining a crescendo of protest around the Arab world, Syrians launched a peaceful uprising against the autocratic rule of Syrian President Bashar Assad. That dissent—met by a brutal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A cemetery and the surrounding buildings in Yarmouk, a once vibrant Palestinian camp outside Damascus, show the devastating ...

WASHINGTON, October 21, 2025 – Syria’s reconstruction costs are estimated at $216 billion after more than thirteen years of conflict, according to a new World Bank report. The Syria Physical Damage ...

After 14 years of destruction, Syria must be swiftly rebuilt to bring stability to the country and the wider region, a top UN official in the war-ravaged nation told AFP. Reconstruction is one of the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Sandra Joireman, University of Richmond (THE CONVERSATION) Close to 1.5 million Syrian ...