Lizzie Porter

SDF has launched counter-offensive to stem Turkish-backed advance in the area, the source of Syria's oil and gas production

Kutnu has been produced in the south-eastern Turkish city for decades - but does the 'palace cloth' that was once used to make sultans' kaftans have a future?

Business was run by elite army unit, say locals, amid concerns over new government tackling corruption

More than 100,000 people held in former Syrian regime's intelligence branches and detention centres are still missing

Syrian Christians say they are being cautiously optimistic about the future

Syria's de facto leader Ahmad Al Shara says all weapons, including those held by Kurdish-led forces, will come under state control

Cemetery officials recount the thousands of bodies they administered to bearing the scars of Assad’s brutal regime

Iran-backed militia used town to move fighters and weapons, rebels and residents say

Hundreds of former soldiers and state employees are processed here by the country's new leadership

Residents face rampant crime, poverty and lack of services in area retaken from rebels by regime forces in 2016

Airport officials call for sanctions to be lifted to restore aviation sector

Nation's industrial capital feels alive two weeks after it was taken over by rebels

Ankara follows Doha to announce the reopening of its embassy in Syria

Body of political activist who returned from Europe in 2020 was found bearing marks of torture

After more than a decade, hundreds of Syrian refugees gathered at the Cilvegozu border crossing to resume their old lives