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The Right Way to Engage With Syria’s New Rulers
Now, foreign countries are trying to steer Syria’s new de facto leaders toward an inclusive government free of sectarian ...
Assad cousin notorious for role in suppressing protests in Syria arrested
A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 ...
40 years on, Hama survivors recall horror of Assad-era massacre
Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Syria's Hama in 1982, during one ...
Opinion
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President Al-Sharaa
As Ahmad Al-Sharaa is inaugurated as Syria’s president, the country enters a new phase. Syria, which had endured years of coups—so much so that it was said Syrians could anticipate them before they ...
Israel to keep troops in Syria after Assad’s fall, Katz confirms
After Abu Mohammed al-Julani was named interim president of Syria, dissolved the parliment, and suspended Syria's ...
What Syria’s secret police saw as the regime crumbled
Hastily abandoned documents show how the fallen government’s vast intelligence apparatus struggled to comprehend and stop the ...
Syria’s New President Pledges Unity in First Address
President Ahmed al-Shara vowed to be inclusive, but the way crucial decisions have been made has left some Syrians wary.
A new Syrian government struggles to reset its corrupt, besieged economy
To understand the shakedown empire that was once Syria under former President Bashar Assad, consider the notorious Al-Khatib ...