Reuters19d
Syria's de facto leader says country ready to welcome UN forces in buffer zone with Israel
DAMASCUS, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said on Thursday his country is ready to welcome UN forces into the UN established buffer zone with Israel. "Israel's advance ...
NBC News19d
Questions about Syria and potential for an ISIS resurgence loom for Trump
It has been a point of pride for him, and it is true. In the first year of Trump’s first term, U.S. forces, working with Syrian Kurdish allies, defeated the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed ...
Foreign Policy19d
Don’t Rush to Send Syrians Back
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The Economist20d
A short history of Syria, in maps
SYRIA WAS once a thriving hub of diverse merchant cities. During the Islamic Golden Age (from the eighth to the 13th centuries) the region that is modern-day Syria made notable contributions to ...
The Washington Post21d
Syria’s children, having known only war, adjust to a sudden peace
DARAYYA, Syria — The children of Darayya, scattered across Syria by war, grew up with secrets: why only their mothers ever came to the school gates; that their fathers had been killed ...
Foreign Policy21d
Syria’s Troubling New Order
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Royal United Services Institute22d
Can Turkey Stabilise Syria?
Turkey’s post-Assad ambitions face mounting risks as it backs Syria’s new rulers while navigating the challenges of sectarian violence, a potential Islamic State resurgence, and Kurdish hostility. Out ...
The Irish Times22d
Israel in Syria: ‘We’re the only part of the country that didn’t celebrate the fall of Assad’
Israeli soldiers have raided Syrian border villages, prompting nervous residents to huddle in their homes. They have captured the country’s highest peak, have set up roadblocks between Syrian ...
Wall Street Journal22d
Syria’s Alawites, Sect of the Assads, Fear for Their Future
KHIRBET AL-MA’ZAH, Syria—When Sunni Islamist rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad’s regime, many residents of this rural village were elated by the end of a half-century of oppression even though ...
Al Jazeera English23d
Syria does not need a ‘handshake litmus test’
Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot walk with Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa ahead of their meeting in Damascus on January 3 ...
Le Monde.fr24d
Syria's HTS 'is a movement that has de-radicalized from the top'
Ahmed al-Sharaa, Damascus, Syria, December 23, 2024. AMMAR AWAD / REUTERS Patrick Haenni, associate researcher at the European University Institute in Florence, has been studying the Hayat Tahrir ...