Naming of New Syrian President Is Met With Some Wariness at Home
While some Syrians celebrated Ahmed al-Shara as head of state, others questioned how the decision to elevate the rebel leader ...
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Leader of rebels who toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad is named country's interim president
The former insurgents on Wednesday also threw out Syria’s constitution, adopted under Assad, saying a new charter would be ...
Syria's al-Hol camp readies first return of Syrian detainees, director says
Kurdish-led authorities who run a sprawling camp for Islamic State-linked prisoners in northeast Syria are preparing the ...
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What Syria looks like a month after the fall of the regime
After the sudden fall of the Syrian regime in December, Syrians are still euphoric but grappling with a shattered economy and fragile security.
Assad’s fall opens window for Syrian refugees to head home − but for many, it won’t be an easy decision
But such research was conducted while Assad was still in power, and it has only been several weeks since Assad fell. As a ...
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The fall of symbols: Toppling Hafez al-Assad’s largest statue in Syria
For decades, statues of Hafez al-Assad symbolized power and repression. Today, they fall as Syrians reclaim public spaces ...
Qatar’s Emir becomes first head of state to visit Syria’s Damascus since Assad’s fall
He was received at Damascus International Airport by Mr Ahmed al-Sharaa, who has been named Syria's transitional president. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Following the fall of Assad, Syrians are learning how to negotiate complex and contradictory freedoms
The religious volatility that has erupted in Syria is not the first sign of religious authoritarianism — but the consequence ...