William Christou

William Christou reports for the Guardian from a Captagon factory outside Damascus.

· 6-min read Standing at the gates of the Khmeimim airbase, a fighter from the Islamist rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) eyed a pink vape being puffed on by a Russian soldier.

Syria’s new leaders are taking a pragmatic approach to relations with foreign powers, including former Assad ally Russia

Killing of journalists in Israeli strike could be war crime, legal experts say after Guardian investigation

The last time Alaa Qasar saw her father, in 2013, he studied her face as if he was trying to memorise it.

Uncertainty over the disappeared is forcing many to confront the brutal reality of Assad’s military prisons

After 21 years, the day Farouk feared had finally come. An envelope sealed with red wax made its way through the faded hallways of Syria's national news agency, Sana, and landed on his desk.

For years reporters at Syria’s state news agency had to toe the line. As life in Syria grew harder, so did the their work

After 15 months of watching their relatives suffering in Gaza, residents of the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Yarmouk camp residents lived through fighting and starvation in the Syrian civil war and feel intimately connected to the suffering in the Gaza Strip