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

A young woman stood up at her high school graduation ceremony and sang the musical rendition of the prayer Acheinu.

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

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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 ...

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

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Monday to lift the U.S. sanctions on Syria after the fall of the Assad regime. Follow Newsweek's live blog.

In Latakia, a Syrian coastal city that has been the site of killings targeting the Alawite minority, four Sunni and Shiite ...

For centuries, the hakawati, an Arabic word meaning "storyteller," played an important role in Syria. In cafes, these men would sit in raised chairs and narrate wild tales to the crowds that gathered ...

At the most conservative estimates, Syria will need about $250 billion to $300 billion in aid and investment to rebuild its ...

Following the fall of Bashar al-Assad, the US has decided to lift sanctions on Syria. As Donald Trump meets the nation’s new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, we consider how it is rebuilding its cities. Syria ...