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Premieres Tuesday, July 1, 2025 at 10:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Syria's uncertain future under Jihadist-turned-statesman Ahmad al-Sharaa. After the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Correspondent ...
Israel's bid to carve out a zone of influence in Druze majority southern Syria conflicts with Trump's plan for a unitary ...
The Syrian Assad regime fell on December 8, 2024. A new government has come to power. The Ahmed al-Shara’a government in Syria is opposed to Iran and sympathetic to countries that oppose Tehran.
Reuters spoke to 14 Syrian sources with knowledge of the scheme, including airport staff, former intelligence and Presidential Guard officers and a person within Assad's business network.
Four days of clashes between pro-government gunmen and members of a minority sect in Syria have left nearly 100 people dead and raised fears of deadly sectarian violence.
While the nearly 14-year Syrian civil war came to an end with the fall of Bashar Assad on Dec. 8, war remnants continue to kill and maim. Contamination from land mines and explosive remnants has ...
Brothers who were held at Assad's notorious Saydnaya prison describe their experience – and so does a former guard who admits to torturing people there.
Syria considers the move by the Trump administration to ease sanctions imposed on the war-torn country as a “positive step” to ease humanitarian and economic suffering, its foreign ministry ...
A cemetery near Damascus was transformed into an industrial-scale mass grave for Syrians who opposed President Bashar al-Assad. By Charlie Smart, Anjali Singhvi, Bora Erden, Mika Gröndahl and K.K ...
Iran’s hold on Syria came through Assad. But with his ousting—and the decimation of Iran’s proxies in Lebanon, Gaza, and Yemen—Iran is spread too thin to rebuild a presence in Syria from ...
More than 100 chemical weapons sites are suspected to remain in Syria, left behind after the fall of the longtime president, Bashar al-Assad, according to the leading international organization ...