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A year after Assad’s collapse, Syria battles trauma, sectarian rifts and the slow work of rebuildingA year after Bashar Assad's fall, Syria grapples with healing from decades of repression and civil war. While former prisoner Mohammad Marw...- World Bank estimates $216B needed to rebuild Syria after civil warSyria faces a colossal rebuilding task. The World Bank estimates the cost at $216 billion. This follows over a decade of civil war. Infrast...
- How Syria's first elections since autocrat Assad's ouster is expected to unfoldSyria will hold parliamentary elections this Sunday. This marks the first vote since Bashar Assad's removal. Most seats will be filled by e...
- Syria President Al-Sharaa makes history, becomes first Syrian head of state to speak at United Nations in 60 yearsAl-Sharaa blasted Israel in his speech, saying that it did not stop its threats to his country since Assad's fall and adding that its polic...
- Trump calls Syrian President ‘attractive, tough’. He was once was a designated US terrorist and had ties with Al QaedaIn a stunning move, US President Donald Trump met with Syria’s newly installed president Ahmed al-Sharaa in Saudi Arabia, calling him a “yo...
- Netanyahu-Trump meeting reveals unexpected gaps on key issuesDuring a recent White House visit, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced a challenging encounter with President Trump, despite in...
- Syria's worst violence in months reopens wounds of the civil warMore than 1,000 people died in four days of clashes after an ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Ass...
- Syria's worst violence in months reopens wounds of the civil warGunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad ambushed a Syrian security patrol, leading to clashes that resulted in over 1,000 deaths within ...
- Syria's new govt promises 'free press' in countrySyria's ruling Baath party and the Assad family dynasty heavily curtailed all aspects of daily life, including freedom of the press and exp...
- Oil prices mixed as rising Mideast tensions offset demand concernsOil prices experienced mixed movements as weak Chinese demand clashed with Middle East tensions following the Syrian rebels' overthrow of P...
- Syria civil war: Bewildered, elated prisoners pour out as President Assad's jails flung openSyrian prisoners, held in notorious detention centers for years under Bashar al-Assad's rule, were liberated following the government's col...
- Syria's Baath party oversaw half a century of repressionSyria's Baath party, under the Assad dynasty, ruled with an iron fist for over five decades. Hafez al-Assad seized power in a 1970 coup, es...
- Syrian rebels say they are pushing into Hama city, army says defences holdingSyrian rebels claimed to have begun an offensive into Hama, but the Syrian army denied these claims. Following their recent victory in Alep...
- Madeleine Albright, 1st female US secretary of state, diesAs secretary of state, Albright was the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government. She was not in the line of succession ...
- Syria: Assad dynasty's half century in powerHafez al-Assad, Syria's defence minister and the father of Bashar al-Assad, takes power in a military coup on November 16, 1970 that ousts ...
- Ten years on, Tunisia is Arab Spring's only successEven so, recent popular movements that toppled leaders in Lebanon, Iraq, Algeria and Sudan have drawn inspiration from the uprisings.
- In ruins, Syria marks 50 years of Assad family rule"There can be no doubt that 50 years of Assad family rule, which has been ruthless, cruel and self-defeating, has left the country what can...
- The new Saudi Arabian heir is a dangerous manMohammed bin Salman has been responsible for a more aggressive Saudi stance in regional affairs, moving from the policy of holding on to oi...
- Why the new Saudi Arabian heir is a dangerous manThe prince is trying to use Trump's backing to mount an attack against perceived Iranian inroads in the Arab world. This policy is fraught ...
- Wave of democratisation: Revolutionaries who shook the Arab worldThe wave of democratisation in the Middle East may be incomplete unless other authoritarian regimes in the region bite the dust.
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