Assad's exile in Russia is a life of secluded luxury and political irrelevance, where he is wealthy and secure but silenced ...

“If Syria fails to integrate all armed forces and former opposition groups into its army, it faces an existential challenge ...

DAMASCUS, Syria -- DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria started the process of circulating new currency bills on Saturday as the ...

In the last days of 2025, the al-Sharaa administration launched a brutal crackdown on the Alawite minority, rebranding a ...

The UK's Ministry of Defence says an underground facility likely storing ISIL weapons was the target of the attack.

Assad, images of the former dictator persist throughout Syria, not least on the country's banknotes. On December 30, the ...

We documented how the dictator Bashar al-Assad and his henchmen conspired to hide evidence of torture and deaths of detainees ...

Thousands of documents and interviews with Assad-era officials reveal how the regime worked to conceal evidence of its ...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed not to yield after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to come to the ...

A program that offers amnesty and aid to Alawites has been met with suspicion by many in the minority. There is also broader ...

Central bank will cut two zeros from Syrian pound and replace images of ousted dictator with olives, roses and mulberries ...

Trump's explicit messages against Tehran coincide with the fall of Maduro in Venezuela and military operations in Nigeria, ...