5 days ago · After the fall of Syria's despotic Assad regime, life is slowly returning to one Damascus neighborhood, where the violence and painful memories of the past are still literally being unearthed.

1 day ago · APTOPIX Syria Mass Graves Syrian civil defense workers, known as the White Helmets, collect human remains found in two separate basements in Sbeneh, outskirts of Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Jan. 28 ...

Dec 6, 2024 · U.S. troops fighting Iranian-backed militias and a resurgence of the Islamic State in eastern Syria face an uncertain path forward as insurgents entering Damascus remake the balance of power in...

Dec 15, 2024 · It has been a historic week in Syria, the first week in a half-century that the Assad family did not rule the country. As rebels took hold of Damascus and Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia, thousands of political prisoners were released into freedom, and Syrian people were dancing in the streets.

Dec 9, 2024 · The swift downfall of Bashar al-Assad is reverberating in Syria and throughout the Middle East. Some changes are already apparent. Syrians who fled the country's vicious civil war years ago are lining up at border crossings to return home.

Dec 8, 2024 · In the early hours of Sunday morning, opposition forces declared Syria liberated from the rule of President Bashar al-Assad as opposition forces surged into the capital. The former...

Dec 10, 2024 · The Islamist rebels whose swift seizure of Syria over the weekend toppled long-time dictator Bashar al-Assad have not only ushered in an unsettled new era for the troubled country, but they promise to reshuffle the region's fraught geopolitics.

Jan 3, 2025 · DAMASCUS—Over a half-century of Assad regime rule, including fourteen years of a brutal civil war, had turned Syria into a state of mass oppression as well as a geopolitical black hole.

Tenth Anniversary of the Ghouta, Syria Chemical Weapons Attack. Ten years ago the Assad regime launched rockets carrying the deadly nerve agent sarin into the Ghouta district of Damascus, killing more than 1,400 people.

2 days ago · 01/28/2025 January 28, 2025. A DW journalist from Syria shares her experience of returning to Damascus after the end of the civil war.