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What is behind the latest round of clashes in Syria between Druze and pro-government gunmen
Four days of clashes between pro-government gunmen and members of a minority sect in Syria have left nearly 100 people dead ...
What to Know About Syria’s Minorities and Sectarian Violence
The new government has pledged to unify Syria after overthrowing the Assad dictatorship. One of its biggest challenges is ...
TASS Russian News Agency7d
Remains of Bashar Assad’s father stolen from mausoleum in Syria’s Al Qardahah
According to the report, which is based on information circulating on social networks, the remains were exhumed by people "wearing military uniforms" ...
Between censorship and chaos: Syrian artists wary of new regime
Directors, writers and actors who had to appease censors in the regime of former Syrian President Bashar Assad, now face a ...
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Netanyahu says Israeli planes intercepted Iranian ones sent to rescue embattled Syrian leader Assad
Share JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli warplanes last year intercepted Iranian aircraft headed toward Syria, preventing them from delivering troops meant to assist the country’s embattled president at the ...
New Syrian foreign minister attends UN Security Council in first US appearance since Assad's fall
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani has attended a U_N_ Security Council briefing, raising his country’s new flag at the ...
The Independent14d
AP PHOTOS: Land mines still claim lives in post-Assad Syria
Since the fall of Bashar Assad’s government last year, the number of land mine-related incidents has surged, particularly as displaced people return to former front-line areas. Contamination ...
Houston Public Media14d
With Assad gone and Syria's war over, the White Helmets have a new mission
How Trump's cuts to U.S. foreign aid are imperiling Syria's war crimes investigations When former leader Bashar al-Assad fell, new Syria war crimes investigations began. But U.S. budget cuts have ...
The Independent15d
'I thought I'd died.' How landmines are continuing to claim lives in post-Assad Syria
While the nearly 14-year Syrian civil war came to an end with the fall of Bashar Assad ... Jalal al-Maarouf, 22, was tending to his goats three days after the Assad government’s collapse when ...
Al Jazeera English16d
Syria’s first wheat shipment since al-Assad ouster points to recovery
A ship carrying wheat has arrived in Syria’s Latakia port, the first such delivery since former President Bashar al-Assad was ousted in December, the government said, as it pushes to boost an ...
Anadolu Ajansi16d
Syrian president meets US congressman in Damascus as foreign visits pick up
US interests in Syria are currently handled by the Czech Embassy. Bashar al-Assad, who led Syria for nearly 25 years, fled to Russia on Dec. 8, ending the Baath Party’s decades-long rule that ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs16d
Syrian President al-Sharaa meets US congressman - analysis
the first by US legislators since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in December.” Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa speaks during a Ministerial formation of the ...