U.S. President Donald Trump's repeated suggestions that Syria's new leader, Ahmad Sharaa, can better curb Iran-backed ...

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), once a crucial US-backed alliance and the most effective force against the Islamic State group in Syria, are reportedly poised to merge into the Syrian army. This ...

Bashar al-Assad ruled Syria as president from July 2000-December 2024. His father, Hafez al-Assad, ruled Syria from 1970-2000. Roughly 4 million Syrians have fled to neighboring countries, according ...

The long civil war in Syria was deadly and destructive. Millions of Syrians fled before Bashar al-Assad's regime was overthrown in 2024. But some people also came to Syria for the war. For the first ...

Guests attend an information event on the status of refugees from Syria after the federal elections in the Town Hall in Norderstedt, northern Germany, on Feb. 26, 2025. — GREGOR FISCHER/AFP via Getty ...

Close to 1.5 million Syrian refugees have voluntarily returned to their home country over the past year. That extraordinary figure represents nearly one-quarter of all Syrians who fled fighting during ...

More than 100,000 people disappeared during the civil war. To bring closure to some of their families, the new government faces the challenging task of exhuming remains from scores of burial sites.

Thousands of Chinese-born Uyghur fighters fled China to fight in the Syrian civil war. They say generations of political persecution in China motivated them to take up arms. The long civil war in ...