Crowds of Syrians have rallied to protest authorities’ efforts to limit the sale and consumption of alcohol in Damascus.

For generations, most Americans knew – and maybe believed – a story about upholstery seamstress Betsy Ross and the making of the nation’s first flag. In the account passed down through her family, ...

For many Syrians, Iran is not an abstract regional player or a far-off ideological force. In Rizik Alabi’s sobering report, ...

Taken together, the accounts reflect a pattern in which personal experience and political judgment are tightly intertwined.