What's it like to live under the rule of the extremist group known as the Islamic State, or ISIS? WSJ looks at the situation ...

The New Orleans attack was just one in a string of recent Islamist inspired acts of terror. Foreign Editor David Pratt examines the factors that ...

The image of the ISIS flag sent me back a decade to my hometown of Mosul. In those days, ISIS wasn’t just a shadowy presence; ...

U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters stand guard at Al Naeem Square in Raqqa, Syria, in February 2022. Baderkhan Ahmad / AP In the aftermath of Bashar al-Assad’s ouster ...

Sponsor Message Sitting in a massive office in central Damascus, furnished with Syrian arabesque wooden chairs and colorfully painted walls ... those of the city of Damascus, and the political ...

By Raja Abdulrahim Photographs by Ivor Prickett Reporting from al-Qardaha, Syria The walls of the mausoleum for ... a court in the northwestern city of Aleppo. “They killed the prisoners in ...

“People knew about it, but no one dared to speak,” said Badarin Omar, a 44-year-old rebel with Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham — Syria’s new rulers — in charge of security at the site. The walls ...

QARDAHA, Syria (AP) — On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built to house the remains ... the former presidential dynasty’s hometown in the mountains overlooking the coastal city of Latakia. Nearby, ...

QARDAHA, Syria -- On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built to ... dynasty's hometown in the mountains overlooking the coastal city of Latakia. Nearby, Bashar Assad's house was emptied by ...

On the walls of the palatial ... was not what the rest of the Syrian society thought,” said Deeb Dayoub, an Alawite sheikh. “Everyone thought Qardaha was a city built on a marble rock and ...

QARDAHA, Syria (AP) — On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built ... s hometown in the mountains overlooking the coastal city of Latakia. Nearby, Bashar Assad’s house was emptied by looters ...