Those fighters are entwined with the main U.S. ally - the Syrian Kurdish forces. SULEIMAN: (Speaking Arabic). ARRAF: The fighters gather around us as we talk. The U.S. has mediated a truce between ...

Damascus (AFP) – When Bashar al-Assad ruled Syria, merchants like Youssef Rajab ... Economics professor Adnan Suleiman of Damascus University said that "the economic model that existed before ...

Syria's war took a terrible toll not only on the people, but also on its infrastructure. Damage to power plants and pipelines has caused power cuts lasting up to 20 hours a day. "The former regime ...

Hezbollah, the Shiite terrorist group that became a powerful political force in Lebanon, had refused to allow an election unless its preferred candidate, Suleiman ... a friend of Syria's Bashar ...

Syria has ended its Tartus port contract with Russia, allocating management of the facility to Damascus, according to the Kyiv Independent. The new government, which assumed power following the ...

Where, when and how did civilians organize during the Syrian civil war that started in the aftermath of the Arab Spring in 2011 and lasted until the toppling of President Bashar Assad in late 2024?

As the international community celebrates the fall of another dictatorship following the collapse of Syria’s Assad regime, the future of women’s rights remains precarious. Power transitions in ...

Staffers for Rep. Tulsi Gabbard were wrestling with a question: Had she really met with the authoritarian leader of Syria for almost three hours? It was Feb. 5, 2017, and the Hawaii Democrat ...