Under former president Bashar al-Assad, Damascus never formally recognised Kurdish autonomy.

All you need to know about Syria’s main Kurdish-led force and its deal with Damascus - The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic ...

AL GHASSANIYEH, Syria — Under a golden autumn sun, Abdallah Ibrahim harvests fistfuls of hard, green olives with evident delight. "We were denied this pleasure for the last 14 years," he sighs. Barrel ...

Once the war began in 2011, exploring Syria freely became nearly impossible. On one trip in 2013, the group’s bus was shot at. Two years later, during a hike in a nature reserve in central Hama ...