Syria's new de facto government faces a host of challenges. One of its most pressing is also one of its most basic: keeping the lights on.

The U.S. freeze comes as IS tries to take advantage of the vacuum created by the fall of Assad’s government in early December ...

who denies links with IS and had been sheltering in an IS-controlled area after being displaced during Syria’s civil war. “Believe me, we did not find food. Even bread only came at 2 p.m ...

“Believe me, we did not find food. Even bread only came at 2 p.m,” said another camp resident, Dirar al-Ali. Members of the Syrian Democratic Forces open a gate of the al-Hol detention camp in ...