Carlotta Gall

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Carlotta Gall |Kiana HAYERI

Hind Kabawat hopes her long experience as a conflict mediator can help Syria's next generation. The challenges are immense. Hind Kabawat, the only female minister in Syria's new government, in her house, in Bab Touma, a majority Christian neighborhood of Damascus. Credit... In a white pantsuit, Hind Kabawat stood out a mile, the only woman in a lineup of 23 men in suits, all ministers of the interim Syrian government just sworn in, flanking the president.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Carlotta Gall |Saad Alnassife |Kiana HAYERI

Syria's ousted dictator, Bashar al-Assad, unleashed a Sarin gas strike on the suburbs of Damascus in 2013, killing at least 1,500. Now, the survivors want justice. The basement of an underground medical center in eastern Ghouta, Syria, where victims of a chemical attack were taken in 2013. Credit... It was a hot, windless summer night, just after 2 a.m., when a barrage of rockets slammed into the Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Carlotta Gall

Turkey has long occupied parts of northern Syria in support of the opposition fighting the Assad regime, as well as to combat Kurdish rebels that it calls a terrorist threat to its own forces. Turkey recently offered to train a new Syrian army and to upgrade Syria's army bases and airports, analysts say, though Syria has not publicly confirmed its acceptance of the offer.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Carlotta Gall

Syria accused Israel on Thursday of trying to destabilize the country after intense airstrikes on military bases and a deadly raid in southern Syria, part of a deepening incursion that is sharply raising tensions in the region. Since the Assad regime was ousted from Syria last year in a rapid rebel offensive, Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes and has deployed forces into southern Syria, in what it says are necessary security operations against potentially hostile forces.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Carlotta Gall

1 day agoBeirut, Lebanon - March 28, 2025 Israel launched a two-rocket airstrike on a suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, demolishing a building. The strike, which occurred just moments ago, sent shockwaves through the densely populated area, raising concerns over further military action.