Ahmed al-Sharaa, the head of Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham who this week appointed himself president of a transitional government, has packed the new administration with loyalists and has ordered ...
Syria's new Islamist leaders are undertaking a radical overhaul of the country's broken economy, including plans to fire a third of all public sector workers and privatising state-run companies ...
The scars that disfigure Syria after 14 years of civil war are wider than its minefields. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of towns and villages across the country have been destroyed or abandoned in one ...