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Shiite rituals for Ashoura in Damascus have drastically changed after the fall of Syria’s former President Bashar Assad ...
They were on opposite sides during Syria's civil war and now must do lifesaving work together. A makeshift brick wall divides ...
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A U.S. envoy says that Syria’s central government and the Kurds remain at odds over plans on merging their forces after the ...
Shiite rituals for Ashoura in Damascus have drastically changed after the fall of Syria's former President Bashar Assad.
Allies of the new Syrian government and other non-state actors have continued violence and discrimination against Christians ...
Assad's 24-year rule ended abruptly as a coalition of rebel forces, led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), launched a rapid offensive that overwhelmed government defenses and captured Damascus within 12 ...
Seven months after the fall of Syria's former president Bashar al-Assad, FRANCE 24’s Wassim Nasr gained rare access to sites across the war-ravaged nation, some of which have long been inaccessible to ...
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham will no longer be designated as a terrorist group, months after the group swept to power in Syria.
The commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces, a U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led armed group that controls much of northeastern Syria, hailed the rebel advance on Damascus on Sunday. "In Syria, we are ...
The rebels battling the regime of President Bashar al-Assad are largely made up of Sunnis, and some of the groups are backed by Turkey. The main one, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, is a Sunni Islamist ...