Eid al-Fitr in Syria was charged with newfound joy this year, as thousands freely celebrated the holiday for the first time ...

Syria’s new transitional government has been sworn in nearly four months after the Assad family was removed from power and as ...

Thousands of Syrians have poured into the streets and public squares to mark 14 years since the country’s civil war began, the first without Bashar Assad in power.

But as the Syrian lawyer went there to pray during her country’s first Ramadan after the end of the Assad family’s iron-fisted rule, she felt something new, something priceless: A sense of ease.