Ankara and Damascus are working on a plan for defense cooperation, according to a Turkish official, who added that Turkey's ...

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged Assad’s rule. Tens of thousands of people were killed by the government’s ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

Over the past four years, Syrian government forces and Russians have repeatedly bombed northwest regime-held areas, killing hundreds. The map below shows the territorial control of various groups ...

For more than a decade, Syria’s multi-front civil war had raged, leaving the country divided and scarred. And for most of that time, the fighting showed little sign of stopping. Then ...

This more detailed road map for Syria's future followed a day after al-Sharaa's first speech at the "Conference for Announcing the Victory of the Syrian Revolution." After he was officially ...

Since the 2011 uprising that sparked the war, more than 100,000 people have died in Syrian prisons, often under torture, according a 2022 estimate from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

“Right now, we have a political decision, we have a road map, we have a step-for-step approach.” Syria conducts very little trade with Europe currently, largely because of a sweeping sanctions ...

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