"They are all from these villages," said Mahmoud al-Haik, a soldier in the new government's defence ministry, who has been stationed in Baniyas in the Latakia countryside. Syrian soldier Mahmoud ...

Syrian security forces thwarted an attack by loyalists of the deposed Bashar al-Assad regime in the coastal province of Latakia, local media said on Thursday. The state news agency, citing a ...

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Below are highlights from a Reuters interview with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa conducted on ... ON BEING IN THE PALACE ONCE USED BY ASSAD "To be honest, my chest tightens ...

As Jake Sullivan, the man who became Mr. Biden’s national security adviser, put it in a 2012 email to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, “[Al Qaeda] is on our side in Syria.” With the help ...

Syria’s newly appointed president for a transitional phase, Ahmed al-Sharaa and Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan pose as they shake hands after a joint press conference at the Presidential Palace in ...

Syria's transitional president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, at the presidential palace in Damascus on February 25, 2025. ABDULMONAM EASSA FOR LE MONDE Three months after ousting Syrian dictator Bashar al ...

Militants from Syria's ruling Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) engaged in a ruthless killing spree this weekend, taking delight in beating, torturing and executing helpless civilians in ...

Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has vowed to punish anyone involved in the latest spate of violence in the country after his soldiers gunned down hundreds of civilians from the Alawite community.

March 10 (Reuters) - Syria has suffered its worst bloodshed since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power, with more than 1,000 people reported killed in violence that has swept the coastal region ...

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa scrambled on Sunday to contain some of the deadliest violence in 13 years of civil war, pitting loyalists of deposed president Bashar al-Assad against the country ...