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MOHAMMAD AYATOLLAHI TABAAR is a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, Associate Professor of International Affairs at Texas A ...

Al-Assad’s victims included protesters, activists, journalists, students, loyalists who fell out of favor and members of ...

Welcome to our live blog bringing you the latest developments from West Asia. Stay updated on key shifts in regional ...

Assad’s regime was toppled, Charlie Smart, a reporter at The New York Times, traveled to a mass burial site in Syria to ...

A new documentary from Frontline explores the quest for stability in Syria in the months since opposition forces caused former President Bashar al-Assad’s government to fall. Ahmed al-Sharaa was the ...

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham will no longer be designated as a terrorist group, months after the group swept to power in Syria.

Shiite rituals for Ashoura in Damascus have drastically changed after the fall of Syria's former President Bashar Assad ...

On May 23, 2025, approximately five months after the Assad regime was overthrown, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of ...

The Trump administration's May 2025 announcement in Riyadh, and subsequent executive order in June, lifting all sanctions on ...

Syria is working to rebuild its energy sector after years of civil war and crippling sanctions. The country has suffered ...