The Syrian soccer player Abdel Basset Al-Sarout became the poster child for the Syrian revolution with his iconic protest anthems. In death, he has become its saint. But he didn't do it alone.
Nearly two months after the fall of the Assad dynasty in Syria, some 4,500 men from several nations including Australia, remain in prison amid fears of 'a militant army in waiting'. Sign up for ...
On Dec. 8, Syrian rebels entered Damascus, ending the Assad family’s 54-year rule and ostensibly the first phase of the Syrian Civil War. Beginning in the Spring of 2011 after a violent ...
Al-Sharaa reproached the Russian delegation for Moscow’s intervention in support of the Assad regime during the war, emphasizing that the Syrian people had endured a bitter experience with Russia. He ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Tulsi Gabbard speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign ...
PALMYRA, Syria—Abdurahman Abu Hamza, a farmer from the Syrian city of Deir Ezzour, last visited the ancient ruins of Palmyra on a school trip as a child. Last week, he strolled with friends past ...
Soldiers practice for a military parade at the Russian air base Hamaimim. Russia is hoping to maintain its military bases in Syria, with talks underway between a delegation from the Russian ...
As a Catholic and a medievalist, I can never resist meeting a new saint. The relic, it turned out, was the saint’s hand, though without any special ornament or reliquary, the ornate containers ...
Many in the region are questioning the kind of settlement Turkey seeks in Syria with the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which control significant territory in the northeast of ...
After loitering off the Syrian coast for weeks, two Russian cargo ships docked at the port of Tartus, part of a reluctant mission to unravel one of the Kremlin's biggest foreign policy successes ...
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