Amid the civil war, Idlib was then under the control of the Al-Nusra Front—a branch of Al-Qaeda in Syria, later becoming Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTC)—within which al-Waisi, a graduate in Islamic ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Residents of northeastern Syria walk towards the Tishrin Dam to join a sit-in demanding an end to the war in ...

Israel deployed military units last month to the buffer zone, which lies along the Golan Heights and separates Syria and Israel, after al-Assad was toppled by opposition fighters led by al-Sharaa ...

Jan 16 (Reuters) - An official with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) said on Thursday the militant group would agree to leave northeastern Syria if the U.S.-allied Kurdish Syrian Democratic ...

SYRIA WAS once a thriving hub of diverse merchant cities. During the Islamic Golden Age (from the eighth to the 13th centuries) the region that is modern-day Syria made notable contributions to ...

Türk said that he had been “assured…of the importance of respect for human rights for all Syrians and all different components of Syrian society”. Syria’s de facto leader - who spearheaded the ...

In case of abuse, Report this post. The downfall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad last month has clearly benefited Turkey, one of Syria’s neighbors. A key regional state, Turkey will most ...

Turkey benefits economically and politically from Assad’s fall, but tensions with the Kurdish-led SDF, Gulf states, Israel, and Iran highlight competing ambitions and risks of instability in Syria’s ...

DARAYYA, Syria — The children of Darayya, scattered across Syria by war, grew up with secrets: why only their mothers ever came to the school gates; that their fathers had been killed ...

If any ethnic group deserves justice, it is the Kurds. (photo credit: orhan qereman/reuters) What is to become of the Kurds, by far Syria’s largest minority, with some two million people?

With the fall of the Assad regime, Syria’s new government now controls almost the entire country, except for the northeast, where the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), once a key partner of ...