ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The new Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad must be built on secular and civil values that respect the rights of minorities, and decentralization is key to ensuring ...

The fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, the culmination of years of civil war, has given way to a power vacuum with different factions protecting their own interests – and vying for power ...

As the Syrian rebel coalition that ousted Bashar al-Assad, ... SDF commander Mazloum Abdi said in an early Wednesday post on X that a U.S.-brokered effort had resulted in the agreement.

Updated at 7:00 p.m. ET on December 9, 2024. A carnival of joy has erupted in Syria with the fall of the strongman Bashar ...

The backbone of the army is the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham units that came out of Idlib and had fought Bashar al-Assad’s military for years. ... Commander Mazloum Abdi,” Levant24 noted. ...

Six months after the downfall of Bashar Al Assad, ... Although a deal was signed by Mr Al Shara and SDF chief Mazloum Abdi on March 10 to integrate the SDF into Syria’s state institutions, ...

Six months since the collapse of the Assad regime, the Russian military presence in Syria has remained entrenched in strategic locations such as the Hmeimim airbase and Tartous port on the coast, as ...

AL SHADADI BASE, Syria (Reuters) -U.S. forces have pulled out of two more bases in northeastern Syria, visiting Reuters reporters found, accelerating a troop drawdown that the commander of U.S.-backed ...