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Greetings from Afrin, Syria, where Kurds danced their hearts out to celebrate spring

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international correspondents share moments from their lives and work around the world.

May 21, 2025
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer
President Trump meets with Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa on March 14, 2025 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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  • World

Trump says Sharaa is a 'tough guy' with a 'real shot' at stabilizing Syria

Gulf states are keen to invest in Syria, which has important mineral and oil reserves, but had been prevented from doing so by U.S. sanctions. President Trump has now pledged to lift the restrictions.

May 14, 2025
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez and
  • Aya Batrawy
Nawaf Nasr, a 78-year-old member of Syria's Druze community, holds a creased black-and-white photo that he says shows him on horseback in a previous life before he died. The Druze religion holds that reincarnation is a path to spiritual purification.

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  • World

Syrian Druze recall what they believe to be past lives — even vivid details

In Syria's large Druze minority, a belief in reincarnation binds the community together.

May 06, 2025
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By:
  • Jane Arraf
The White Helmets search for unexploded ordnance in Homs, Syria, on Jan. 29.

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  • Middle East

With Assad gone and Syria's war over, the White Helmets have a new mission

Vilified by the Assad regime, these Nobel-nominated first responders operated only in rebel areas. Now their founder is in the new government and they're extending their reach to all of Syria.

April 21, 2025
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer and
  • Jawad Rizkallah
Palmyra's ancient theater, seen on Feb. 21, was used by ISIS for public executions during the group's takeover of the region.  Syrians are hoping for a return of tourists now that the country has reopened to international visitors after the fall of the regime of Bashar al-Assad to rebel fighters last December.

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  • World

Syria hopes tourists will return to Palmyra, a World Heritage Site ravaged by war

Before 2015, Palmyra was considered one of the world's most intact ancient Roman sites. ISIS blew up many key monuments of this storied Silk Road city. Syrians hope restoration can begin now.

April 17, 2025
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By:
  • Jane Arraf
"The regime has fallen, and I need to transition to civilian life," says former opposition fighter Omar Halaby, 29, who lost his right leg during a 2017 attack by Syrian forces loyal to then-President Bashar al-Assad. "Part of that process is seeing my late friends one last time, to give them a dignified reburial."

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  • World

How Trump's cuts to U.S. foreign aid are imperiling Syria's war crimes investigations

When former leader Bashar al-Assad fell, new Syria war crimes investigations began. But U.S. budget cuts have halted some work. For families of the disappeared, it means justice delayed or denied.

April 15, 2025
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer
Three days after the killings in Latakia, as soon as a curfew was lifted, Druse leaders evacuated every student studying in universities on the coast – more than 1,200 of them. They arrived late into the night on the 10th March 2025 and were greeted by the Druze Military Council at border checkpoints.

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  • World

Druze militias are suspicious of Syria's new leaders -- and are ready to go to battle

The new leadership vowed to disband all militias. But the fiercely independent Druze have made no agreement, and say they're gathering fighters and making plans to repel government forces if needed.

April 09, 2025
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  • Jane Arraf
Kifah Zainie, 34, co-owns and manages Sugar Man, a popular nightspot in Damascus, on March 27. Zainie says he's uncertain about the future of the alcohol industry, under Syria's new conservative Muslim rulers.

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  • Middle East

What happened when Syria's conservative new leaders tried to shut 60 Damascus bars

When Syria's new leaders shut 60 Damascus bars, drinkers protested, and the government reversed itself. It's an example of the tussle between secular and Islamist values in the new Syria.

March 31, 2025
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer
Hani al-Farra shared these images of his son and daughter, who went missing with his pregnant wife and their third child at a Syrian regime checkpoint in 2013. Al-Farra searched for them for years to no avail. After news emerged that security forces had hidden some children of detained women in Damascus orphanages, he began his search again.

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  • Global Health

The missing children of Syria: Hidden in orphanages under Assad, where are they now?

Assad's forces detained mothers and children and sent many of the youth to orphanages. Syrians whose children vanished during the war are now seeking information on their fate. NPR investigates.

March 16, 2025
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By:
  • Diaa Hadid and
  • Mirna Alrached
Abdulwahab Omira, 28, stands in front of his destroyed family home in Damascus, Syria. Omira and his family fled Syria's civil war in 2012 when he was a teenager. Now a U.S. citizen and a graduate student at Stanford, Omira recently returned to his home country to look for ways the tech industry could help rebuild it.

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  • World

He fled Syria's war as a teenager. He went back to help launch a tech industry

Abdulwahab Omira escaped Syria's war with his family as a teenager. He recently returned as a Stanford graduate student and a budding entrepreneur, hoping to help jumpstart the country's tech industry.

March 11, 2025
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By:
  • Greg Myre
Syrian security reinforcements deploy in Latakia, Syria, on Friday.

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  • Middle East

Syria imposes curfew after its worst clashes since the Assad regime ouster

Syria's new government sent in security reinforcements and imposed curfews on a coastal area after major clashes with fighters loyal to the deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

March 07, 2025
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By:
  • Jane Arraf
A flag with a photo of Abdel Basset al-Sarout is seen in Homs, Syria, on Jan. 31.

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  • Middle East

Meet the Syrians behind the music that inspired a revolution

Syrian soccer player Abdel Basset al-Sarout became the poster child for the Syrian revolution with his iconic protest anthems. In death, he has become its saint. But he didn't do it alone.

March 05, 2025
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By:
  • Emily Feng and
  • Jawad Rizkallah
A woman waves a flag bearing a picture of the founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Abdullah Ocalan, as people gather in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in northeastern Syria to listen to a message from the jailed leader on Feb. 27. Ocalan called for his Kurdish militant force to disband and his fighters to lay down their arms.

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  • World

Kurdish militant group PKK declares ceasefire after decades of conflict with Turkey

Militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party have declared a ceasefire, in what may represent a significant political breakthrough for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

March 01, 2025
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By:
  • Willem Marx
Rabbi Yusuf Hamra steps into the more than 500-year-old Faranj synagogue in Damascus for the first time in more than three decades. He left Syria, along with most of the country's historic Jewish population, in 1992.

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  • World

Syrian Jews return to Damascus for the first time in decades, hoping to build bridges

Thousands of Jews left Syria in 1992, when they were allowed to emigrate. The visit by a small delegation of U.S.-based Syrian Jewish religious figures last week was their first time back since then.

February 27, 2025
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By:
  • Jane Arraf
President Trump greets Jordan's King Abdullah at the White House on Tuesday. Trump has proposed that the U.S. take control of Gaza and transfer its population to neighboring countries, possibly Jordan. However, Abdullah said he and other Arab states strongly opposed relocating Palestinians.

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  • World

Trump's Gaza proposal has rattled the Middle East. More surprises are likely

President Trump has already shaken up the Middle East by suggesting a U.S. takeover of Gaza. More drama could be on the way when the president spells out plans for other parts of the volatile region.

February 12, 2025
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  • Greg Myre
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