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.

Syria’s interim government is undertaking a sweeping reform of the country’s shattered economy, including plans to lay off a third of public sector workers and privatize state-run enterprises that ...

BAGHDAD — The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions in neighboring Iraq to reconsider their push for U.S. forces to exit the country, multiple Iraqi and American officials ...

One day after the announcement of Syria's new interim president, the former leader of the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham militia, Ahmad al-Sharaa, held his first presidential address to the nation. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ishaq joined so-called Islamic State in Syria and held nine Yazidi women and children captive as slaves. Details of those killed have emerged from embassies in Stockholm, as police describe the ...

Qatar’s Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, is set to visit Damascus on Thursday, marking the first visit by an Arab leader to Syria since the transition of power following the fall of former ...

Syria's interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, promised Thursday to hold a "national dialogue conference" in his first address to the nation since the fall of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad. Sharaa, who ...

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz announced on Tuesday that Israeli troops would remain atop Mount Hermon in southern Syria indefinitely, following their strategic seizure of the area after the ...