In the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel seized the Golan Heights, about 60km (40 miles) south of Damascus, from Syria, before annexing it in 1981. The annexation is not recognised by the UN and many other ...

Syria’s new transitional government was sworn in Saturday nearly four months after the Assad family was removed from power ...

The choice of cabinet officials was seen as a litmus test for whether the rebels who ousted Bashar al-Assad would deliver on ...

With its ongoing air attacks on Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, Israel's "fundamentalist and racist" government has become "the ...

Out of 23 cabinet members, one is a woman, five served the Assad regime before the war, and several are from Syria’s main ethnic and religious minorities (Kurds, Druze, Christians and Alawites ...

Israeli airstrikes have hit several hundred times since December.... Syria's dictator is gone. Its civil war is over. But Israel keeps attacking KOAYIAH, Syria — A panicked phone call ...

Syria remains deeply fractured after nearly 14 years of war, with the cost of rebuilding estimated at anywhere from $250 billion to $400 billion. The country’s economy remains in ruins ...

Reports, however, soon surfaced revealing that key figures within deposed President Bashar al-Assad’s war machine were behind ... In a coordinated assault on Syria's western coast, attackers ...

The conflict devolved into armed insurgency and civil war after Assad crushed what started ... two of whom had never seen Syria before. Moussa, 38, recalls, at one point, fleeing an area while ...

Read the Questions & Answers. Paris, 8 April 2025. Majdi Nema, former spokesman and high official of the Syrian armed group Jaysh al-Islam ("Army of Islam"), will appear before the Paris Criminal ...