DAMASCUS, Syria—The Syrian factions that toppled President Bashar Assad last month named an Islamist former rebel leader as the country’s interim president on Wednesday in a push to project a ...

A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 uprising has been detained inside Syria, according to state news agency SANA.

One day after the announcement of Syria's new interim president, the former leader of the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham militia, Ahmad al-Sharaa, held his first presidential address to the nation. ...

In December 2024, a handful of rebel groups led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham ousted the brutal dictatorship that had ruled Syria for five decades and set up an interim administration. Now, foreign ...

Ishaq joined so-called Islamic State in Syria and held nine Yazidi women and children captive as slaves. Details of those killed have emerged from embassies in Stockholm, as police describe the ...

Leader of Rebels Who Toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad Is Named Country's Interim President DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The Syrian factions that toppled President Bashar Assad last month named an ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Syrian fighters watch Russian armoured vehicles driving past near the Hmeimim Air Base, a Syrian airbase ...

Russia is struggling to retain two military bases in Syria that have enabled it to project influence in the Middle East and Africa, according to a person in Moscow familiar with the situation.

After loitering off the Syrian coast for weeks, two Russian cargo ships docked at the port of Tartus, part of a reluctant mission to unravel one of the Kremlin's biggest foreign policy successes ...

The fall of the Assad regime on December 8, 2024, has marked a pivotal moment in Syria’s history. With the collapse of decades-long authoritarian rule, Syria faces the monumental challenge of ...

The current Syrian leadership can only be described as occupiers. They were not elected by the people, despite their claims of representing a predominantly Muslim Syria—a claim that is itself ...

The European Union has taken the first step to ease its stringent, far-reaching sanctions against Syria after foreign affairs ministers endorsed on Monday a roadmap for a temporary suspension ...