But I came alive and I could hold it in my hand," Salem, executive director of the Syrian Women's Political Movement, told The Current's host Matt Galloway. "I felt that I owned the country.

In Syria's capital, Damascus, there are hole-in-the-wall beauty parlors on nearly every street, places for women to chat while getting blowouts and manicures. And when NPR's Diaa Hadid visited a ...

The international community should focus on empowering Syria’s local civil society groups and advocating for women’s rights ...

The pictures show an individual whose face is blurred dressed in women's clothing sitting on a sofa, and another person wearing makeup with their hair covered. They circulated after the Syrian ...

Comments by Syria's newly appointed head of women's affairs have sparked uproar, with social media users expressing outrage on Sunday, weeks after Islamist-led rebels toppled longtime ruler Bashar ...