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Syrian Kurds are set to demand a federal system in post-Assad Syria that would allow regional autonomy and security forces, a ...

The Assad regime thrived on erasing memory. Forced disappearances, propaganda and violence weren’t just tools of control; they were weapons aimed at obliterating the past. Anti-regime ...

When American academic and UN advisor Jeffrey Sachs spoke at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum about the war in Syria—now in its 14th year—his remarks were received like carefully prepared talking points ...

Last December, after years of building a powerful armed faction—Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, classified internationally as a ...

Mohammed Afif Naifeh details torture victims' mass burials, calls for justice and sanctions relief 4 months after regime's ...

Syria's civil war reached a historic turning point as rebel coalitions launched a swift, coordinated campaign that ended decades of Assad family rule. Using modern battlefield tactics, drones, and ...

The Palestinians seek an independent state in east Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza, territories Israel captured in the 1967 ...

A month after a wave of revenge attacks left hundreds of Alawite civilians dead, members of the Syrian religious minority are ...

At the start of the new year, 115,000 Syrians had already returned home from Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. In December, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) expected 1 million ...