HTS has long had a strained relationship with the other major rebel bloc in Syria, the Turkey-backed Syrian National Army (SNA). The SNA's focus during the recent offensive has largely aligned with ...
The Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp near Damascus was devastated by the Syrian civil war. The scene of violent clashes ...
More than 200 million Christians are associated with Orthodox Churches and most celebrate Christmas on 7 January.
The country was the most coup-prone country in the Arab world ... Bassel al-Assad died in a car accident, which meant that Hafez’s heir would almost certainly be his other son, Bashar, a Western ...
For more than a decade, Bashar Assad presided over a regime that brutally ... This shift weakens the legacy of Arab nationalism and offers a pragmatic model of governance that appeals to war ...
The Americas, Australasia, Asia, Europe and Africa have already been marking the arrival of the new year with fireworks and ...
The fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in ... Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), to drive Assad from power, thus backstabbing Syria’s traditional allies, Iran and Russia. Tehran has intimated that ...
A statement said to be from Bashar al-Assad ... Syrian Interim Government Arab countries had for years been moving toward normalizing relations with Mr. al-Assad, despite his brutal treatment ...
Only glimpses are visible: women wearing traditional flowing white headscarves ... The fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad a week ago saw people take to the streets in Majdal Shams to celebrate ...
On the other side, Islamist hardliners criticised al-Sharaa for taking the photo at all, describing the woman as a "mutabarijah" - a term for a woman perceived to dress immodestly or wear makeup ...
Asma al-Assad was always the friendly face of a brutal regime. The UK-born ophthalmologist married Bashar al-Assad in ... Her choice of clothing was a careful one, designed to exhibit her ...
After Syria's new authorities arrested an official who issued death sentences to prisoners under ousted president Bashar ...