After decades of dictatorship and 13 years of civil war, can Syria put itself back together? Our journalists traveled the ...

Syrian rebels seized Damascus on Sunday, and long-time President Bashar Assad fled the battle-scarred country amid the stunning collapse of his regime after 13 years of war. Assad and his family ...

With the war crippling the formal economy, the country became the world’s largest narco-state under the regime of ousted President Bashar al-Assad. In the weeks after the regime’s collapse, security ...

Now 70, the country's longest-serving political prisoner is finally free after Bashar al-Assad's fall, seeking justice and accountability. Issued on: 05/06/2025 - 04:41 Modified: 05/06/2025 - 04: ...

During the 13-year civil war in Syria, the forces loyal to ousted President Bashar al-Assad carried out some of the most horrific chemical attacks in recent history. One of them was in April 2018, in ...

Tice, a freelance reporter and former Marine, vanished near Damascus in August 2012 while covering the Syrian civil war. Although the US government has long believed he was held by Bashar al-Assad’s ...

Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa has in six months established himself internationally and had crippling sanctions removed, but still needs to rebuild national institutions, revive the ...

Al-Sharaa’s visit is his first to Kuwait since taking office in January 2025, following the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December. The visit reflects growing Arab engagement with Syria ...

The presence in Syria of thousands of foreign fighters who helped oust the Assad regime could now pose a threat to President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s political survival.

BEIRUT (AP) — The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for two attacks in southern Syria, including one on government forces that an opposition war monitor described as the first on the ...

ISIS has claimed responsibility for two attacks in southern Syria, including one on government forces that an opposition war monitor described as the first on the Syrian army to be adopted by the ...

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