Assad’s regime was toppled, Charlie Smart, a reporter at The New York Times, traveled to a mass burial site in Syria to ...

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

Assad's 24-year rule ended abruptly as a coalition of rebel forces, led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), launched a rapid offensive that overwhelmed government defenses and captured Damascus within 12 ...

The Trump administration's May 2025 announcement in Riyadh, and subsequent executive order in June, lifting all sanctions on ...

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A cemetery near Damascus was transformed into an industrial-scale mass grave for Syrians who opposed President Bashar ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has revoked the designation of a group of Syrian rebels that previously ...

A U.S. envoy said Wednesday that Syria's central government and the Kurds remain at odds over plans on merging their forces ...

Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) on Wednesday filed text to permanently repeal legislation that imposed strict sanctions on Syria, following President Trump’s move to unwind penalties on the country ...

A U.S. envoy said Wednesday that Syria's central government and the Kurds remain at odds about plans on merging their forces ...

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

Allies of the new Syrian government and other non-state actors have continued violence and discrimination against Christians ...