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

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Assad's 24-year rule ended abruptly as a coalition of rebel forces, led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), launched a rapid ...

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

The USCIRF is encouraging the Trump administration to impose conditions on sanction removals that require improvements in ...

Syrian rebels seized Damascus on Sunday, and long-time President Bashar Assad fled the battle-scarred country amid the stunning collapse of his regime after 13 years of war. Assad and his family ...

This year, after Assad’s ouster in a lightning rebel offensive led by Sunni Islamist insurgents, the Shiite neighborhoods of Damascus were subdued.

The United States government has revoked its designation of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham as a foreign terrorist organization, seven ...

Duration 2:51 A sense of calm and order is returning to Damascus after Syrian rebel leaders lifted a city-wide curfew and urged people to return to work after the fall of dictator Bashar al-Assad.

After the Assad regime fell in December, I rushed to the capital, Damascus, and found a swirl of joy and trepidation about the future.

Seven months after the fall of Syria's former president Bashar al-Assad, FRANCE 24’s Wassim Nasr gained rare access to sites across the war-ravaged nation, some of which have long been inaccessible to ...