
Syria is confronting a potentially historic food crisis after the worst drought in 36 years drove wheat production down by roughly 40%, heightening pressure on a cash-strapped government that has struggled to secure large-scale grain purchases. The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) told Reuters that about three million Syrians could ...

Through the smoke rising from Sweida and the embers glowing along Syria’s coastline, the contours of a deeply fractured nation emerge. What’s unfolding in Syria today is not simply the latest chapter in a prolonged civil conflict. It is the manifestation of a more insidious transformation—one that is quietly redrawing ...