After Assad’s fall, al-Baghdadi was finally able to return. Like many, he was euphoric and hoped it would pave the way for ...

US official says move is gesture of goodwill to Syrian people Allows sales of oil, electricity Syria warns of looming catastrophe due to sanctions DAMASCUS/WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (Reuters ...

A Syrian former equestrian champion has told ... into a prolonged ordeal marked by brutal interrogations and years of physical and psychological abuse. "I was kept underground for six months ...

HTS itself is designated a terrorist organization by the United States. And there are fears that unresolved tensions between Syria’s ethnic and religious groups could impede Shara’s efforts to unify ...

On it were two maps of Syria. The first, daubed in blotches of ... They will be aware that eradicating IS as a physical entity was always going to be an almost insurmountable challenge.

At the time, the regime of Bashar al-Assad was still in power in Syria, and Israel had not yet launched its devastating campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Some of the details of the September ...

When the Syrian regime began to collapse, rebel forces took advantage of the vacuum in power and began to expand their area of operations beyond the 55km area. Fighters from the Turkish-backed ...

THERE ARE few tougher jobs in Syria. On December 30th the country’s interim government named Maysaa Sabrine to head the central bank. A former deputy governor of the bank and the first woman ...

There are other signs, however, that the world may make many of the same mistakes in Syria that it did in Afghanistan after 2021. Western capitals have not been willing to commit to a road map for ...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a warning regarding U.S. military bases in Syria in a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday during a speech at a ceremony honoring a fallen ...

Maysaa Sabrine is a longtime official of the Syrian Central Bank. Maysaa Sabrine has been appointed as the governor of the Syrian Central Bank. She is the first woman to hold the position in its ...

DAMASCUS-Syria’s new rulers have installed some foreign fighters, including Uighurs, a Jordanian and a Turk, in the country’s armed forces as Damascus tries to shape a patchwork of rebel ...