Senior Islamic State Somalia commander captured in Puntland
A senior commander of Islamic State's Somalia wing was captured on Monday, police and state media said, two days after the IS leadership was targeted with U.S. airstrikes and as security forces ...
Foreign Affairs5d
Syria’s Biggest Problem
But already, Syria’s post-Assad future is on a knife’s edge. The obstacles to reconstructing the country are immense. Chief among them is the question of refugees forced from the country during ...
Washington Times20d
Syria’s Kurdish hope: A blueprint for power-sharing emerges from chaos
The Syrian Democratic Council plays a pivotal role in Syria’s transition and future constitution. It rejects independence for Rojava, the Kurdish region in northeast Syria, in lieu of power ...
France 243d
Syria to have new government on March 1, foreign minister says
Syria will have a new government as of March 1, the country's interim foreign minister announced on Wednesday. Syria has been led by interim president Ahmed Al-Sharaa, the leader of former al ...
The Hill3d
The Trump administration needs a Turkish-Syria policy right now
Turkey is in talks with its paramilitary Islamist allies Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, to solidify the group’s influence and control over the new Syrian government. Turkish President Recep Tayyip ...
AOL4d
‘Everything is better than before’: How Syria is reopening to tourists
“Hello from Free Syria. I’m in Damascus right now. It’s a beautiful winter. Everything is better than before,” Ayoub Alsmadi, founder of Syria Scope Travel, told CNN Travel. “Everyone is ...
Al Jazeera English4d
Syria’s leader, Russia’s Putin make first contact since al-Assad’s fall
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has spoken to Syria’s interim leader Ahmad al-Sharaa, the first such top-level contact since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Rebels led ...
Sky3d
What do hidden documents tell us about Syria's missing people?
Two months on from the fall of the Assad regime, Syria is still uncovering the depths of the horrors inflicted on its own citizens during his rule. On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson is joined ...
Middle East Eye3d
Syria after Assad: How to rebuild from the ashes of war
The transitional process will be fraught with challenges, but the Syrian people deserve a peaceful, stable and prosperous nation A girl holds an independence-era Syrian flag out of the window of a ...
AOL3d
Exclusive-Syria's new leaders zero in on Assad's business barons
(Reuters) - Syria's new rulers are combing through the billion-dollar corporate empires of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's allies, and have held talks with some of these tycoons, in what they ...
Sky4d
Inside one of Syria's most feared places - where scale of Assad regime's brutality is revealed
The recorded documentation of every facet of official life so common of dictatorial regimes is an overwhelming legacy of the Assad family's reign of terror in Syria ...