Assad’s regime was toppled, Charlie Smart, a reporter at The New York Times, traveled to a mass burial site in Syria to ...

Shiite rituals for Ashoura in Damascus have drastically changed after the fall of Syria's former President Bashar Assad ...

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Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) on Wednesday filed text to permanently repeal legislation that imposed strict sanctions on Syria, following President Trump’s move to unwind penalties on the country ...

A cemetery near Damascus was transformed into an industrial-scale mass grave for Syrians who opposed President Bashar ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has revoked the designation of a group of Syrian rebels that previously ...

On May 23, 2025, approximately five months after the Assad regime was overthrown, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of ...

The longtime enemies have opened contacts, reflecting a power shift across a Middle East in which they have newfound common ...

Allies of the new Syrian government and other non-state actors have continued violence and discrimination against Christians ...

Sharaa's leadership, the new Syrian government has waged a brutal suppression campaign against minority Alawite and Christian ...

Thousands of Syria’s Jews left in recent decades. But after Assad’s ouster and easing of sanctions, they can now reconnect ...

For decades, Lebanon has been torn apart by internal division and external conflict. There may currently be a narrow window ...