By Feras Dalatey, Joanna Plucinska, Reade Levinson, Maha El Dahan DAMASCUS/LONDON/DUBAI (Reuters) -As his enemies closed in ...

The one thing holding Syria together now is Ahmed al-Sharaa, who has taken on the near-impossible job of teaching his people to trust one another again. It is an unlikely role for a former jihadist.

At least 12 civilians, mostly Alawites, were killed in separate incidents of apparent sectarian violence in Syria's coastal and central regions on Monday, a war monitor said, following massacres ...

Syria, awash in weapons and trauma and with ... were finally convening in what is now being called the People’s Palace, a cavernous stone building that just a few months earlier was reserved ...

Speaking at the People's Palace in Damascus after the Eid al-Fitr holiday prayer, Al-Sharaa said: “Syria is writing a new history, and before us lies a long and difficult road. We possess all ...

The accounts by the dozen witnesses in Damascus, however, indicate that sectarian violence unfolded in the southern edges of Syria's capital, a few kilometres from the presidential palace.

By Carlotta Gall and Christina Goldbaum Reporting from Damascus, Syria Syria’s interim president ... in a brightly lit hall in the presidential palace on a hill above Damascus.

Syria’s Islamist-led rulers formed a new transitional ... during a ceremony in Damascus at the country’s presidential palace, which the authorities renamed the “People’s Palace.” ...

A ceremony to announce the new Syrian government began Saturday with ... new state," Sharaa said at a ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Damascus. "This government will seek to open new ...

Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa attends an interview with Reuters at the presidential palace, in Damascus, Syria March 10, 2025. (photo credit: REUTERS/KHALIL ASHAWI) Syrian President ...