Ahmed Hilmi, a Syrian human rights activist and survivor of the Baath regime’s prisons, is calling for justice for thousands of victims subjected to systematic torture and killings. “I want justice, not revenge,” said Hilmi, who endured three years in the regime’s detention centers and bore...

Syrian children born in Türkiye, who have never seen their homeland, are traveling to Syria for the first time following the fall of the 61-year Baath regime. Syrians who sought refuge in Türkiye during the 13-year civil war continue to return to their homeland after the collapse of the Assad...

Jordan will host a Syria crisis summit over the weekend with participation of foreign ministers from numerous Western and Arab nations, Amman’s foreign ministry announced Thursday. The Saturday summit “to discuss developments in Syria” will include top diplomats from Jordan, Saudi Arabia,...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday strongly denounced "recent and extensive violations of Syria's sovereignty and territorial integrity," and urged Israel to end attacks. " The secretary general is particularly concerned over the hundreds of Israeli airstrikes on several...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken landed in Jordan on Thursday at the start of a crisis tour following the overthrow of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, an AFP journalist on his plane said. The outgoing top US diplomat will meet Jordan’s King Abdullah II and the foreign minister in the...

The American citizen found near the Syrian capital Damascus is named Travis Timmerman, and is not missing US journalist Austin Tice as initially reported. Speaking to Al Arabiya on Thursday, Timmerman said he had come to Syria on a religious trip seven months ago, adding that he had been...

A regional cooperation organization in East Africa on Thursday commended a landmark agreement between Somalia and Ethiopia that ended nearly a year of tensions following talks in the Turkish capital. Workneh Gebeyehu, executive secretary of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development...

The Israeli army Thursday morning killed at least 37 Palestinians in a series of airstrikes that targeted guards escorting aid trucks as well as homes sheltering displaced people across the war-torn Gaza Strip. A medical source told Anadolu that 15 Palestinians were killed and 30 others injured...

A pair of lawmakers in the US House of Representatives urged the Biden administration Wednesday to implement a "deliberate and phased" lifting of sweeping sanctions on Syria after the end of more than five decades of Assad family rule. Reps. Joe Wilson and Brendan Boyle said in a letter to...

Relatives of those who were detained in the prisons of Syria’s toppled Bashar al-Assad regime attempted to identify their loved ones Wednesday through photos displayed on the walls of Al-Mujtahid Hospital in southern Damascus. They also searched for them in the morgue, where bodies bearing...

The Lebanese Army said on Wednesday that it had deployed units in five positions around the town of Khiam in southern Lebanon’s Marjeyoun district following the Israeli military withdrawal. In a statement, the army clarified that the deployment was carried out in coordination with the UN...

The health ministry in Gaza said Wednesday that at least 44,805 people have been killed in more than 14 months of war between Israel and Palestinian militants. The toll includes 19 deaths in the previous 24 hours, according to the ministry, which said 106,257 people have been wounded in the...

The death toll from a Russian missile strike that destroyed a clinic in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Tuesday has risen to six, while four more people remain under the rubble, the regional governor and emergency services said on Wednesday. An additional 22 people were injured,...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday Iran had evidence that the toppling of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was a result of a plan by the US, Israel and one of Syria’s neighbors that he did not name.

Syrian opposition commander Hassan Abdul Ghany said on Tuesday that their fighters completely took control over the eastern Syrian city of Deir el-Zor. The news comes days after US-backed alliance led by Syrian Kurdish fighters announced it had captured Deir el-Zor, making it the third city...

The Israeli army alleged Tuesday that it had destroyed as much as 80% of the military capabilities of Bashar al-Assad's deposed regime. Army operations "have been completed, with 70-80% of Assad's regime's military capabilities destroyed,” according to Israeli Army Radio, which indicated that...

The Syrian asks "Should I be sad about the destruction of my country's air, sea and land military bases by Israel?" A bitter question, especially since these bases were used only to kill the Syrian people. Airports from which Syrian and Russian warplanes took off, flew and bombed, chemical...

Syria ’s new interim leader announced on Tuesday he was taking charge of the country as caretaker prime minister with the backing of the former opposition forces who toppled president Bashar al-Assad three days ago. In a brief address on state television, Mohammed al-Bashir, a figure...

Mohammed al-Bashir has been appointed caretaker prime minister of the transitional Syrian government until March 1, 2025, he said in a televised statement on Tuesday. Al-Bashir ran the opposition-led Salvation Government before the 12-day lightning offensive swept into Damascus.

An Israeli military incursion into southern Syria has reached about 25 kilometers (16 miles) southwest of capital Damascus, two regional security sources and one Syrian security source said on Tuesday. The Syrian security source said Israeli troops reached Qatana, which is 10 kilometers into...