The U.S. Agency for International Development’s fate is hanging in the balance as the second Trump administration’s ...

It unfolds an 18 month journey through war and revolution, in Rojava Kurdistan NE Syria, during the advance and victory of the Syrian Democratic ... Raqqa and demise of the Islamic Caliphate), but ...

Long before 13 years of war ravaged the country, the Syrian state was a mess. Ministries were weighed down by employees hired on the basis of their personal connections, many whom knew little ...

Amid historical changes in the balance of power in the Middle East, at least one thing remains constant: the strategic ...

Syria, on January 23, 2025 [Yamam Al Shaar/Reuters] After the 2011 Arab Spring uprising turned into a civil war, the opposition to al-Assad fractured into many groups. Jabhat al-Nusra was an al ...

We don’t know how long the transitional period will be, as there is currently no timetable for Syria to hold elections. Al-Sharaa has previously said that organising an election in the war ...

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 ...

His faction controlled most of Idlib Province, in northwestern Syria, during a long stalemate in the country’s civil war, which dragged on for nearly 14 years. In late November, Mr. al-Shara ...

After turning half of all Syrians into refugees, and killing half a million people, the monstrous Syrian war is drawing to a close, and Iran’s ally, the Bashar Assad regime, has emerged as the ...

Established during the Syrian civil war, Rojava’s political framework is grounded in democratic confederalism ... to join the struggle to defend it. But in 2021, they were ambushed by forces loyal to ...

Boza, a 65-year-old farmer from Kobani in northern Syria, had travelled to the Euphrates River by convoy on 15 January. He was part of a sit-in protest on the Tishreen Dam, organised by the local ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Syria’s de facto leader Ahmad al-Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani, walks in the ...