After masked gunmen set a Christmas tree on fire in central Syria, thousands of people, hundreds of them in capital Damascus, ...

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A view from the first city taken by the rebels who ousted President Bashar al-Assad, scene of a brutal Russian-backed ...

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The toppling of Bashar Assad has raised tentative hopes that Syrians might live peacefully and as equals after a half century ...

After public protests and then rebellion erupted in Syria in 2011, Assad’s regime clung to power through systemic torture and ...

Sham, or HTS, made a lightning assault across Syria. Where did the rebels get the cash, weapons and training that made their ...

(AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed) Syrian opposition fighters manoeuvre using armoured vehicles seized from the Syrian army in the town of Maarat al-Numan, south of Idlib ... on a popular uprising against ...

In the days since al-Assad fell on 8 December, following a rapid advance from Idlib to Damascus by rebels led by Hayat Tahrir ...

The Economist picks a country of the year. The winner is not the richest, happiest or most virtuous place, but the one that has improved the most in the previous 12 months. The debate among our ...