While some Syrians celebrated Ahmed al-Shara as head of state, others questioned how the decision to elevate the rebel leader ...

The rebel chief who led the overthrow of the longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad has been declared the head of government for a transitional period.

With Syria's corruption-ridden economy in shambles after the overthrow of Bashar Assad, the caretaker government’s priority ...

For more recent analysis of Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS), see this August 2023 post from the Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program's Examining Extremism series. Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS or ...

A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital, an essential link between Europe and the Arabian ...

Transitional Syrian authorities should take steps to urgently secure and preserve physical evidence across the country of grave international crimes by members of the former government.

The meeting in Irbil, the capital of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq, came weeks after the fall of the government of former Syrian President Bashar Assad in a lightning ...

leader of Syria’s new administration and formerly known as Mohammad al-Jolani, said at a press conference in the Syrian capital. Report an error ...

Meanwhile, Syria's de facto leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, hosted Spain's Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares Bueno in the capital. The simultaneous visits highlight Damascus's intensified efforts to ...

In the first year of Trump’s first term, U.S. forces, working with Syrian Kurdish allies, defeated the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed “caliphate” and liberated its capital.

Kaja Kallas’ comments came at a gathering of top European and Middle Eastern diplomats in the Saudi capital of Riyadh to discuss Syria’s future.

Foreign ministers from Arab and Western countries held a meeting in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Sunday to discuss the situation in Syria following last month’s fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime.