A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved ... make them for you,’” wrote Alia Malek in her book The Home That Was Our Country. The children were eventually released ...

Syria Arrests Assad-Era Officer Seen as Responsible for Triggering 2011 Uprising DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Syrian authorities have arrested a former senior security officer and cousin of ousted leader ...

One day after the announcement of Syria's new interim president, the former leader of the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham militia, Ahmad al-Sharaa, held his first presidential address to the nation. ...

Since Islamist rebels overthrew the Assad dictatorship in Syria, Egypt, with parallels in its own recent history, has watched warily. By Vivian Yee Reporting from Cairo Soon after Islamist rebels ...

In December 2024, a handful of rebel groups led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham ousted the brutal dictatorship that had ruled Syria for five decades and set up an interim administration. Now, foreign ...

Germany is home to the largest Syrian diaspora outside the Middle East. As of December 2023, about 972,000 Syrian nationals were living in Germany, including 712,000 registered as seeking ...

Turkey’s influence in Syria is more complex than commonly portrayed. While it has played a role in shaping events, its long-term dominance remains uncertain amid shifting power dynamics. Indeed, the ...

Homs (Syria) (AFP) – Weeping, Fairuz Shalish grasps the red earth at an unmarked grave in Syria that she believes may hold her son, one of tens of thousands of people who vanished under ousted ...

Sharaa was already de facto head of Syria's government ever since a coalition of rebel fighters swept through most of Syria and ousted Assad's... HOMS, Syria — Ahmed al-Sharaa, the leader of the ...

HOMS, Syria — Ahmed al-Sharaa, the leader of the Syrian rebel group that overthrew Bashar al-Assad's government, was named head of a new interim government, according to the Syrian news agency ...