Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. More than a decade had passed since ...

Sharaa, seemed to waver between his jihadist past and his presidential present. After the first day of violence he made a ...

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Fighting between security forces and pro-Assad militants is worst in years; death toll, mostly of Alawites, considered among ...

Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa has signed a temporary constitution that will be in force for a five-year ...

The recent mass killings targeting Syria’s Alawite minority in the west of the country raise doubts about the new leader, ...

A few days after the United Nations secretary-general Guterres shook Ahmed al-Sharaa’s hands and praised his efforts at ...

Ahmed al-Sharaa says Syria will not be dragged into civil war as he vows to hold accountable those involved in violence.

Sharaa blamed pro-Assad groups backed by foreigners for triggering the bloodshed but acknowledged that revenge killings had ...

Human rights activist Ribal al-Assad condemned European countries for lifting sanctions on Syria's new "terrorist" regime that is "killing civilians." ...

More than a decade had passed since Ahmed al-Sharaa squeezed into the narrow lift that went up to his parents’ 10th-floor apartment. The Soviet-style block hadn’t changed much since he last ...