Syria’s new rebel leaders have control of the country. Now what?
The new Islamist-led government promises moderation, but officials aren’t committing to such issues as women’s rights or free ...
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Palestinian refugees recall horrors of Assad’s regime in ruined city
Mahmud Khaled Ajaj describes torture he faced in Syrian prison while Haitham Hassan al-Nada recounts being shot, left for ...
Anadolu Ajansi4d
Qatar reopens embassy in Syrian capital after 13 years
Qatar closed its embassy in Damascus in July 2011, following attacks by supporters of Bashar al-Assad's regime - Anadolu ...
RIPR: The Public's Radio1d
The Assad regime’s fall has freed displaced Syrians stuck in a remote desert camp
More than 7,000 people had taken shelter in the Rukban camp, near the border with Jordan, many of whom fled the regime and ...
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Syria’s Civil War: The Descent Into Horror
Khaled al-Hariri/Reuters People demonstrate against the Assad regime in the besieged town of Al Qsair, near Homs, in January 2012. Alessio Romenzi/Corbis Islamic State militants pose for a photo ...
France 246d
Defeat of Syria's Assad stirs a mother's bitterness
"But the important thing is that Bashar al-Assad is gone. He destroyed us and ... Senior HTS cadre Khaled Musa, 44, told AFP that things were proceeding well and that the new IDs would last ...
Monday Briefing: Al-Assad’s Final Days in Power
This account of al-Assad’s fall, much of which has not been previously reported, is based on interviews with Syrian, Iranian, ...
Deception and Betrayal: Inside the Final Days of the Assad Regime
Assad, who wielded fear and force over Syria for more than two decades, fled the country under the cover of night — and a ...
Bashar al-Assad Exploited Alawites’ Fear
Supporting Assad, himself an Alawite, was a matter not of loyalty or politics for this community, the regime insisted, but of ...
Inside the house of Assad
Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez, ruled Syria for more than half a century but how did one family achieve and maintain ...
How Syria’s rebels overcame years of a bloody stalemate to topple Assad
The Syrian regime’s collapse came more quickly than the rebels had dreamed — the circumstances were both serendipitous and ...
Newsweek2d
Bashar al-Assad
The Kremlin has denied reports that claim Asma al-Assad is seeking a return to London following her husband's exile in Moscow. Two African states are frustrating Moscow's efforts to establish a ...