Syria and Israel Revive Security Talks Mediated by the U.S.

The talks, in Paris, are the latest effort to reduce tensions between two longstanding enemies. A deal would help both curry ...

Syria One Year After the Overthrow: The Enigma of Damascus

Twenty years ago, Ahmed al-Sharaa was laying bombs to target Americans. Today, he is received in the White House. But where ...

How the Assad Regime Covered Up Its Crimes: Key Takeaways

We documented how the dictator Bashar al-Assad and his henchmen conspired to hide evidence of torture and deaths of detainees ...
CNN

As Syria’s president preaches human rights, new evidence details abuse allegedly carried out under one of his key commanders

Editor’s note: This story is part of As Equals, CNN’s ongoing series on gender inequality. It contains graphic and disturbing accounts of sexual violence. For information about how the series is ...
Foreign Policy

One Year on, U.S. Sanctions Are Killing Syria’s Recovery

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Newsweek

Shunned by Putin, Syria’s Ex-Dictator Lives in Isolation

Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is living in near-isolation in Russia, sidelined by President Vladimir Putin, one year after fleeing Syria following the collapse of his rule, according to a ...
NPR

A momentous week as Syria celebrates lifting U.S. sanctions and a year without Assad

DAMASCUS, Syria — As they mark the first anniversary this week of toppling Bashar al-Assad's regime, Syrians are also celebrating another likely milestone. The U.S. is on the verge of removing ...
Forbes

A Year After Assad’s Fall, Russia Preserves Syrian Energy Influence

Extensive Russian influence in Syria goes back to the Soviet era and survived the collapse of the USSR and the end of communism. It appears that now Russian influence in Syria has survived the fall of ...
The Hill

In Syria, relief and reality collide one year after Assad’s fall

ALEPPO, SYRIA — Early Monday morning in Aleppo, soldiers lined the streets near the old city walls, standing in loose formation beside battered buildings as men gathered quietly around them. Almost no ...
Wall Street Journal

The Hunt for Assad’s Brutal Enforcer

DAMASCUS, Syria—During 13 years of revolution and war, the Syrian dictatorship of President Bashar al-Assad set a high water mark for cruelty in the 21st century, disappearing tens of thousands of ...
The Economist

Israel refuses to withdraw from Syria

Within hours of Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian dictator, fleeing Damascus in December last year, Israeli troops were on the move. They occupied territory in southern Syria stretching from the highest ...