Reuters investigation traces March 2025 coastal massacres to militias and units tied to Syria’s new leadership, exposing a ...

A Reuters investigation found 40 distinct sites of killings, looting and arson during three days of sectarian massacres ...

Ironically, on Feb. 26, 2011, two days after the fall of Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak to protesters and just days before the wave of Arab Spring protests swept into his country, Assad e-mailed a joke ...

Dozens of Alawite women and girls disappear this year Some are abducted, families receive ransom demands Assad’s fall led to ...

The European Union imposed on Monday an asset freeze and a ban on travel to the EU on five people linked with toppled Syrian ...

Syria has attracted growing international investment and aid commitments in the six months since the fall of the regime of former president Bashar Al Assad, as the country seeks to rebuild its ...

This shows that what we need are political solutions, not another wave of instability and displacement,” Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, wrote in a Twitter post. Grandi, who is ...

Over two million Syrians who had fled their homes during their country’s war have returned since Bashar al-Assad’s overthrow in December, UN refugee agency chief Filippo Grandi said Thursday during a ...

The sweeping directive unwinds layers of sanctions but maintains Syria's designation as a state sponsor of terrorism.

In an Assad torture prison, ... What began in 2011 as peaceful demonstrations — part of a broader wave of uprisings across the Middle East — was met with unsparing brutality by the Assad regime.

The problem, for both Iran and the Palestinian cause, is that the rest of the Middle East had already come to the same ...