Firefighting efforts have been hampered by the presence of mines and unexploded ordnance left over from the civil war, as the country grapples with the worst drought in decades.

The UAE’s interventionist foreign policy, backing Assad in Syria and the RSF in Sudan, has backfired, damaging its global ...

Thousands of Syria’s Jews left in recent decades. But after Assad’s ouster and easing of sanctions, they can now reconnect ...