This is Part 3 of a four-part series by Shahira Salloum, managing editor of Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, reflecting on her January ...

New “slow flower” farms grow beautiful blooms—without health-harming chemicals used by overseas operations that dominate the ...

The Trump administration's abrupt freeze in foreign aid has closed health clinics offering free care in one of Syria's most ...

A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 uprising has been detained inside Syria, according to state news agency SANA.

DAMASCUS: Syria's new leaders are undertaking a radical ... before serving as a treasury official in the rebel stronghold of Idlib in 2023. Until sweeping into Damascus in the lightening ...

Developments towards the end of 2024 rapidly changed all involved actors’ considerations and calculations concerning Syria. Advancing from Idlib, the HTS-led rebels faced little resistance as they ...

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 ...

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Syria's newly appointed president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, said on Thursday he will form an inclusive transitional government representing diverse communities that will build ...

"A 2017 visit with Syrian President Bashar Assad is another point of contention. Assad was recently deposed as his country's leader following a brutal civil war in which he was accused of using ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Tulsi Gabbard returned to Washington from a clandestine sit-down with Syria’s then-president Bashar Assad eight years ago this month, she was greeted with a flurry of ...