Who is Lebanon's Gebran Bassil?

The United States imposed sanctions on Friday on influential Lebanese Christian politician Gebran Bassil, the son-in-law of ...
Asharq Al-Awsat

Syrian President Sharaa Expected to Visit Washington, US Envoy Says

United States Special Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack said on Saturday that Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa was expected to visit Washington. During the visit, Syria would "hopefully" join the ...
Asharq Al-Awsat

Lebanon Accuses Israel of Responding to Negotiation Offer by ‘Intensifying’ Attacks

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Friday accused Israel of responding to its offer to negotiate by intensifying its air ...
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Artist Elias Izoli depicts life in Bashar Al Assad's Syria as a sad circus

Elias Izoli’s circus is not a place of joy. The paintings in Inside Out ’25, the Syrian artist's solo exhibition at Ayyam Gallery, are vibrant, drawing from the bold and whimsical palettes associated ...
The American Conservative

Putin Meets Syria’s al-Sharaa, a Former Enemy, in Moscow

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa met Wednesday with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in Moscow and promoted closer ties between the two ...
Washington Examiner

Syria’s Sharaa meets Putin in Moscow, but Assad haunts event from the shadows

Syrian President Ahmed al Sharaa touched down Wednesday in Moscow, the same city in which the dictator he overthrew now lives in protected luxury. Sharaa was in Russia to meet with President Vladimir ...
The New York Times

The Missing Enforcers of the Assad Regime

An ongoing reporting project to uncover the roles and whereabouts of the key officials who powered President Bashar al-Assad’s brutal reign in Syria. By The New York Times The Syrian strongman Bashar ...
The New York Times

Putin Welcomes the New Syrian Leader While Still Harboring the Old One

The meeting in Moscow between President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and President Ahmed al-Shara of Syria showcased the adaptability of two leaders once at odds. By Paul Sonne Reporting from Berlin ...
Democracy Now

Reuters: Assad Regime Moved Mass Graves to Cover Up Killings

A new investigation by Reuters has concluded the former Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad secretly moved tens of thousands of bodies to hide evidence of mass killings. Between 2019 and 2021, the Syrian ...
CNN

Syria’s interim president visits Putin in Moscow for first meeting since fall of Assad regime

Syria’s interim president, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, travelled to Moscow for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, the first face-to-face contact the pair have had. The meeting was ...
Reuters

Exclusive: Assad government secretly moved mass grave to cover up killings, Reuters investigation finds

DHUMAIR, Syria, Oct 14 - The Assad government carried out a two-year clandestine operation to truck thousands of bodies from one of Syria’s largest known mass graves to a secret location more than an ...