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After sharing escape plan, Hafez Bashar al-Assad's alleged X account suspended
The son of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad posted about his family’s final days in Damascus before the rebel takeover ...
Inside one of Syria's most feared places - where scale of Assad regime's brutality is revealed
Sky News has looked through burnt documents at Syria's political security prison where thousands were held - many for trivial ...
Bashar al-Assad's strategy of chaos
The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...
‘Everything is better than before’: How Syria is reopening to tourists
Syria’s status as a classic Middle East tourist definition was shredded by civil war. Visitors are now beginning to return, ...
In Damascus, art re-emerges: 'We feel free and, at the same time, we're still afraid'
Assad's fall enabled the Zawaya Art Gallery to emerge from semi-secrecy. Filmmaker Oussama Mohammed returned from exile for a ...
Syria’s dire economic woes threaten to undermine its new government
Assad’s ouster has seen his Iranian allies end crucial oil supplies. Meanwhile, many economic sanctions that initially ...
Inside Bashar al-Assad’s dungeons
Assad’s regime and the dictator’s flight spread over the weekend, many Syrians rushed to the public squares to celebrate. In Damascus, women draped in the green-and-black flag of the Syrian opposition ...
Chemical weapons agency chief says Damascus meetings first step towards improved ties
The head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said on Saturday meetings he had with Syria's new ...
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Friends of Italian priest long missing in Syria hope for news
In a centuries-old monastery on a rocky hill north of Damascus, friends of missing Italian priest Paolo Dall'Oglio carry on ...
Syria could allow Russia to keep its bases, new defense minister says
In an interview, Murhaf Abu Qasra, a onetime leader in Syria’s insurgency, discussed moves by authorities in Damascus to ...
This man is changing power balance in Middle East; not Donald Trump, Ayatollah Khamenei, Erdogan, Netanyahu, his name is…
Sharaa, also known by the nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Julani, is the leader of the Hayat Tahrir-al-Sham, the rebel group ...
Interview: 270,000 Syrian refugees return since Assad's ouster, more expected: UNHCR official
More than 270,000 Syrian refugees have returned since the fall of Bashar al-Assad's government in December 2024, with over a quarter of those still abroad expressing a desire to return in the coming ...