In Arabic, Assad means “lion,” although that wasn’t his real name. Hafez, Bashar’s father, had adopted it to look strong. Hasan was born in the northeastern Syrian city of Manbij, 18 years before the ...

The genocide in Gaza lays bare the harsh realities of modern geopolitics, highlighting the mechanisms of power in a world ...

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

An Apache helicopter patrolled the outskirts of the city of Hassakeh as a heavily loaded pickup truck, filled with displaced ...

Syria is open to letting Russia keep its air and naval bases along the Mediterranean coast as long as any agreement with the ...

Security continues to deteriorate in northeast Syria as ongoing clashes threaten the country’s transition towards an era of ...

Ankara and Damascus are working on a plan for defense cooperation, according to a Turkish official, who added that Turkey's ...

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Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa visits Ankara on Tuesday for talks with Turkey’s leaders on rebuilding his land and the volatile issue of Kurdish ... is beyond their control,” she added.

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