The arrival of the first top Russian diplomat in Damascus since Bashar al-Assad’s fall kicks off negotiations over the fate ...

Sharaa, Syria’s president, spoke to The Economist on January 31st in Damascus. The conversation has been translated and ...

was arrested by General Security forces in the country's western Latakia province, state media SANA said. Syria's new ruling authority has carried out security crackdowns in several regions that ...

Since Islamist rebels overthrew the Assad dictatorship in Syria, Egypt, with parallels in its own recent history, has watched warily. By Vivian Yee Reporting from Cairo Soon after Islamist rebels ...

Security forces affiliated with the new authorities in Syria have launched a security sweep in parts of Homs and Latakia provinces, arresting dozens of people they say were involved in abuses ...

and fixing them requires great wisdom, hard work and doubled effort.” A sense of duty was what Syria “needs today more than ever,” he said. “Just as we were determined in the past to ...

Many in the region are questioning the kind of settlement Turkey seeks in Syria with the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which control significant territory in the northeast of ...

In his first televised speech as interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa promised to form an inclusive government and build strong state institutions. https://p.dw.com/p ...

Maha Janoud spent years working in Syrian football before leaving the country. After the toppling of Bashar Assad, she is hopeful for the future of Syria, its women and women's sports. Since Syria ...

A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 uprising has been detained inside Syria, according to state news agency SANA.

In December 2024, a handful of rebel groups led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham ousted the brutal dictatorship that had ruled Syria for five decades and set up an interim administration. Now, foreign ...

Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot walk with Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa ahead of their meeting in Damascus on January 3 ...