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Thousands of foreign fighters fought alongside the Syrian rebel groups that toppled the Assad dictatorship. Many plan to stay ...
It has been six months since Syria broke free from 53 years of repressive rule. Now a former al Qaeda militant, Ahmed ...
Syria will be fully reconnected to the Swift international payment system “in a matter of weeks”, the country’s new central bank governor said, relinking the country to the global economy after 14 ...
Dissident Shadi Haroun visits the cells where detainees were kept and speaks to prison workers in pursuit of answers ...
Billboards thanking President Trump have popped up across Damascus, Syria’s capital city. CNN’s Clarissa Ward meets the woman ...
It was the fifth day of the Six-Day War in West Asia when Israel captured Golan Heights from Syria on June 9, 1967. This ...
The Palestine Branch was one of the most feared security centers in Syria, infamous for its brutal interrogations, arbitrary ...
We hear from a range of people living and working in Syria about how the country is changing.
The new Syrian government has agreed to give inspectors from the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog access to suspected former ...
We're replacing BBC Sounds outside the UK and bringing you BBC.com, a seamless way to read, watch, and listen - all in one ...
A new ‘Frontline’ episode investigates over a decade of mass imprisonment and torture of Syrians under then-president Bashar ...