US-Backed Commander Says His Kurdish-Led Group Wants a Secular and Civil State in Post-Assad Syria
The commander of the main U.S.-backed force in Syria said the recent ouster of the Assad family from power should be followed ...
Syria's new leaders turn to Islamic law in effort to rebuild Assad's police
Officers say the move aims to instil a sense of morality as they race to fill a security vacuum after dismantling ousted ...
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US kills al-Qaeda affiliate operative in Syria
The United States military announced early on Friday that its forces killed Muhammad Salah al-Za’bir, a senior operative of an al-Qaeda affiliate, in a precision airstrike in northwest Syria.
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Syria does not need a ‘handshake litmus test’
The visit came less than a month after the sudden downfall of one of the most violent regimes in the Arab world – the Baathist dictatorship of President Bashar al-Assad. There are a myriad of ...
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What could Assad’s downfall mean for freedom of expression in Syria?
Under Bashar al-Assad, expression was curtailed by repressive laws and ... Similarly to Syria, in Iran religion or nationality has been used officially to justify restricting freedoms and turning the ...
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Assad’s fall opens window for Syrian refugees to head home − but for many, it won’t be an easy decision
More than 6 million Syrians have fled the country since 2011, when an uprising against the regime of Bashar ... Assad regime in late 2024 by opposition forces led by the Islamist group Hayat ...
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Security in Alawite regions in post-Assad Syria
Syria’s first post-Assad protests broke out on Dec. 25 after a video claiming to show the destruction of an Alawite shrine ...
Assad’s fall opens window for Syrian refugees to head home − but for many, it won’t be an easy decision
But such research was conducted while Assad was still in power, and it has only been several weeks since Assad fell. As a result, it’s unclear how many Syrians will decide to go back. After all, the ...
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Turkiye says Kurdish-led armed groups in Syria will be ‘eliminated’
and that Ankara would not agree to any situation allowing the armed group YPG to maintain a presence there after the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Turkiye sees the People’s ...
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UN rights chief meets with Syria’s al-Sharaa, visits Sednaya prison
DAMASCUS: The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk , Wednesday called for a Syrian national reconciliation process to ensure justice for crimes committed over the past five decades of ru ...