In a puzzling scene, we find ourselves entering the second month of liberation without any tangible media presence for the new government. There are no official digital platforms to provide citizens with news or data, and no means to announce decrees or appoint officials or even explain the...

Kurdish-led authorities who run a sprawling camp for ISIS-linked prisoners in northeast Syria are preparing the first-ever return of detainees to Syrian areas, the camp director said, a move enabled by the fall of the al-Assad regime. Al-Hol camp director Jihan Hanan said preparations were...

German Christian Democratic Union candidate Friedrich Merz has announced a tough programme on refugees and migration on his first day as chancellor – if he wins in February. Merz, 69, will reject all migrants without valid entry documents at the German border and stop asylum seekers from...

Syria’s transitional government on Thursday condemned the killing of a photographer who had been working for state news agency SANA since before last month’s ouster of longtime strongman Bashar al-Assad. “The information ministry condemns the assassination of photographer Ibrahim...