Bashar al-Assad's strategy of chaos
The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...
Syria has a new government—or does it?
Ahmed al-Sharaa, leader of the organization that overthrew Syria’s Assad regime, has “assumed the presidency of the country ...
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First attack on Israeli forces since their incursion into Syria
ALBAWABA - The Israeli army said that armed rebels fired on Israeli soldiers in the freed district of Quneitra for the first ...
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Assad Is Gone, Syria’s Captagon Trade Isn’t
Despite its statements vowing to clean up the country, Syria’s new government is unlikely ... its head in the southern province of Daraa. Although Sharaa has already secured control over ...
Tehran Times4d
Where is the situation in Syria heading?
The upcoming meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump is of great interest to ...
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Israel's stranglehold on southern Syria devastates water resources, land, and livelihoods of Syrian farmers
Israeli forces' ongoing encroachment in southern Syria is devastating farmland, destroying vital crops, and crippling local ...
AP PHOTOS: A tour through northeastern Syria in a moment of uncertainty
The sudden collapse of the Syrian government and President Bashar Assad’s flight to Russia in December marked a dramatic ...
Syria could allow Russia to keep its bases, new defense minister says
In an interview, Murhaf Abu Qasra, a onetime leader in Syria’s insurgency, discussed moves by authorities in Damascus to ...
In Syria, the fighting is over, but a resource-rich region is left in limbo
Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.
Syria’s New Rulers Overhaul Economy with Firing ‘Ghost Employees’
Syria's new leaders are undertaking a radical overhaul of the country's broken economy, including plans to fire a third of all public sector workers and privatizing state-run companies dominant during ...
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Western-backed HTS Islamists organise executions in Syria
Members of the new Syrian security forces stand outside a security building in Nawa, near Daraa, Syria, January 4, 2025. [AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy] Reports of excessive violence and executions of ...