To applause, percussionist Bahjat Antaki took to the stage with Syria’s national symphony orchestra for the first classical concert at the Damascus Opera House since President Bashar al-Assad ...

“This book has given me insights into Balochistan that I was previously unaware of,” laghari told. “The authors have beautifully captured the true essence of Balochistan,” he shared proudly. “We will ...

Ibrahim's elder sister and actor Sara Ali Khan reposted the song Ishq Mein on her Instagram Stories and wrote, “My brothers pehla gaana (first song) (pink heart, man dancing, and hand heart ...

LOUAI BESHARA/AFP via Getty Images In Sweden, I met Razouk, a refugee who had fled Syria after being threatened by the Assad regime and severely tortured by a fundamentalist group. He had ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Mazloum Abdi, commander-in-chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the northeastern Syrian city of ...

Assad was ousted from power on Dec. 8 after a lightning offensive by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group, whose leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, was declared Syria's transitional president last ...

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 ...

Syrian security forces arrested Atef Najib, a cousin of ousted Bashar Assad and former political security chief in Syria’s Daraa city, over crimes against civilians, including children ...

It will be Sharaa's first official visit abroad since he assumed power after leading a rebel campaign that ousted Bashar al-Assad in December. Sharaa, an Islamist who was once an affiliate of al ...

Tulsi Gabbard told US Senators at a hearing to confirm her as the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) that she has "no love for Assad or Gaddafi or any dictator" as her critics have said, "I just ...

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.

(AP Photo/Anmar Khalil) In this photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, meets with Iraqi Prime Minister ...