In the Turkmen mountains in northwestern Syria, humanitarian workers who have become the new Syrian Civil Defense are ...

They were on opposite sides during Syria's civil war and now must do lifesaving work together. A makeshift brick wall divides ...

On May 23, 2025, approximately five months after the Assad regime was overthrown, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of ...

Ahmed al-Sharaa led HTS, considered a jihadist group for years. Now, he has replaced Assad as Syria’s new president. And he ...

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week lifting sanctions on Syria as a way to help the country's transitional government gain its footing.

Shiite rituals for Ashoura in Damascus have drastically changed after the fall of Syria's former President Bashar Assad.

A busted portrait of a busted dictator: A photo of Bashar al-Assad in a facility formerly part of the Assad regime’s Political Security Branch on the outskirts of Hama, following the capture of the ...

But the world simply is not a safer place with the current Iranian regime still in Tehran. It continues to be a malignancy, and we need to cut it out once and for all before it can metastasize ...

The Council imposed restrictive measures on five persons responsible for serious human rights violations and abuses in Syria, including supporting the use of chemical weapons under the al-Assad regime ...

The European Union imposed on Monday an asset freeze and a ban on travel to the EU on five people linked with toppled Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad for supporting crimes against humanity ...

When the regime’s collapse became imminent, Wassim continued to deny the reality on the ground, posting videos mocking dissenters and reaffirming his faith in Assad’s staying power. In one video, he ...