Syrian forces said they had surrounded on Wednesday a camp housing a prominent French extremist wanted by his government, sparking clashes at the site according to a monitoring group. The operation in northwest Syria was the new government’s first known assault targeting extremists since...

The World Bank estimated on Tuesday that the cost of rebuilding Syria will be approximately $216 billion, following more than 13 years of war that devastated the country and inflicted severe damage to its infrastructure and economy. This was stated in a report issued by the bank entitled...

The massacres committed by the ouster Syrian regime in Hama, Palmyra, Jisr al-Shughur, and Aleppo during the 1980s systematically targeted families. Parents were arrested and killed under torture or summary execution, leaving children without support or identity. These children, who...

The British government on Tuesday removed “Hayat Tahrir al-Sham” (HTS), the group which spearheaded the Syrian opposition alliance that helped oust president Bashar al-Assad, from its list of banned terrorist organizations. HTS, a former al-Qaeda affiliate, was proscribed in 2017,...