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Slender shoulders, a limp handshake and soft-spoken lisp. Those were the most vivid memories from my meeting with Bashar al ...

By Timour Azhari, Maya Gebeily and Tom Perry DAMASCUS/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Rebel leader Ahmad al-Sharaa's Islamist group is ...

Syrians searching for missing loved ones are scouring the country’s most notorious prison for information and anyone still ...

Syrian rebels have desecrated the tomb of ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad’s father, former Syrian President Hafez al Assad.

Sharaa's Islamist group is stamping its authority on Syria's state with the same lightning speed that it seized the country, ...

U.N. peacekeepers' "freedom of movement is severely constrained in the current context," a U.N. official told Newsweek.

Syrian rebel commander Abu Mohammed al-Jolani vowed on Wednesday to hunt down all those responsible for torturing or killing detainees under ousted President Bashar al-Assad. “We will pursue them in ...

Golani, the militant leader whose insurgency toppled Syria’s President Bashar Assad, visited a mosque he used to attend in the suburbs of Damascus on Monday, praising the efforts of his fighters.

Syrian armed opposition leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said he is working to "dissolve the security forces of the previous regime and close the notorious prisons" ...

Rebel forces in Syria captured the capital Damascus and toppled the regime of President Bashar Assad in a lightning-quick ...

Since then, as the war intensified, the prison became, by all accounts, even more terrible. In 2021, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights calculated that as many as thirty thousand people had been ...