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Syria’s defence ministry opens applications for Assad-era troops
Syria’s defence ministry has opened applications for Assad-era soldiers to enlist in the army, reaching across former enemy ...
The National on MSN4h
David Miliband calls for international aid overhaul after Syria lessons learnt
International aid must be reorganised and kept away from potentially corrupt governments so it can reach those most in need, ...
Operation Assad: the air mission to smuggle the Syrian despot's valuables
By Feras Dalatey, Joanna Plucinska, Reade Levinson, Maha El Dahan DAMASCUS/LONDON/DUBAI (Reuters) -As his enemies closed in ...
New Syrian foreign minister attends UN Security Council in first US appearance since Assad's fall
Syria's foreign minister attended a U.N. Security Council briefing Friday after raising his country’s new flag at the ...
Al-Monitor1d
Assad's tycoon cousin, Rami Makhlouf, forms militia on Syria's Alawite coast: What we know
Assad, said on social media he is working with former commander Suhail al-Hassan following the massacres of Alawites on the ...
The New Voice of Ukraine on MSN6d
Russia refuses to extradite fugitive dictator Bashar al-Assad to Syria’s new government
It is the first official confirmation that Russian authorities have denied the request from Damascus. Assad and his family ...
‘I thought I’d died.’ How land mines are continuing to claim lives in post-Assad Syria
Since the fall of Bashar Assad’s government in December 2024, the number of land mine-related incidents has surged, ...
The Economist4d
The warlords of Syria have a daunting to-do list
During the Arab spring, Ghouta was one of the first parts of Syria to rise up against the autocratic regime of Bashar al-Assad, who took over the country in 2000 following the 30-year rule of his ...
Newsday3d
Syria's Kurds call for a democratic state that protects their ethnic rights
QAMISHLI, Syria — Representatives of Kurdish groups in Syria called Saturday for a democratic state that gives the country’s Kurds their ethnic rights after the fall of Bashar Assad.
Agence France-Presse on MSN7h
Syrian-American Jews visit Damascus synagogue
A group of Syrian-American Jews prayed in a synagogue in Damascus on Tuesday, an AFP photographer reported, the latest such ...