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At the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the photos show a country on edge: privilege upstairs, gunfire downstairs, and Trump turning violence into security leverage and a hero’s glow.

Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Salwan Georges spoke about his experiences in conflict reporting at the Xposure International Photography Festival in 2026. Drawing from his upbringing in Iraq ....

Pulitzer Prize–winning photojournalist Salwan Georges brought a deeply personal perspective to global conflict reporting during a session at the Xposure...

In an Assad torture prison, I saw my father’s poem still on the wall.

Syrians had remained silent about the bodies dumped in countless basements by Assad’s forces. Rescue teams now are moving from home to home excavating remains.

Israeli attacks are angering Syrians and unsettling the country’s new leaders, who are dealing with multiple crises after the end of Bashar al-Assad’s rule.

Nearly three months after Assad fled, much of Syria is suspended between relief at the dictatorship’s demise and anxiety over what comes next.

The new construction, visible in satellite imagery, suggests an extended presence. Israel says its forces will stay as long as needed to protect its citizens.

As 2024 comes to a close, four photographers — Carolyn Van Houten, Lorenzo Tugnoli, Salwan Georges and Carmen Abd Ali — look back at the stories they covered.

Bashar al-Assad’s father brutally crushed an uprising in Hama, creating a blueprint for repression. Decades later, Syrians can now start to tell their stories.

The Syrian regime’s collapse came more quickly than the rebels had dreamed — the circumstances were both serendipitous and part of a larger global realignment.

Although members of the Christian community said they are happy to see the Assad regime go, many are wary of their new Islamist leaders.

Branch 322 was one of hundreds of facilities that detained and interrogated civilians and military officers, and recruited locals to monitor their neighbors.

The battle for Aleppo fractured the city along social and economic lines. Whether people here can live together again will help decide the fate of a new Syria.

Rising temperatures and melting glaciers are altering the ways humans pray and threatening the existence of sacred traditions.

Taken from their families and sent to remote boarding schools, Native American children often faced sexual abuse by priests, brothers or sisters who ran the facilities.