The Latest Breaking News from Bashar Assad

Yasmine al-Saleh has two occasions to celebrate this year: the Eid al-Adha holiday and her family’s return home after nine years in a notorious displacement camp in the Syrian desert

Trading has resumed on the Damascus Securities Exchange after a six-month closure, as Syria’s new leaders attempt to shore up the country’s battered economy and begin rebuilding after nearly 14 years of civil war

The U.S. flag has been hoisted outside of the long-shuttered ambassador’s residence in Damascus

Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria have announced an agreement with the transitional government in Damascus to evacuate Syrian citizens from a camp that houses tens of thousands of people with alleged ties to the Islamic State group

During Syria’s civil war, protecting the revered Sayyida Zeinab shrine was a rallying cry for some Shiite fighters and groups from beyond the country’s borders backing then-President Bashar Assad

Militants attacked a Russian air base in Syria, killing two soldiers, a Syrian government official and a local activist have said

Reason heard from a minister in the new Syrian government about the Trump administration's outreach.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio stood by the controversial revamp of the department and the shuttering of some foreign aid programs.

Syria's capital, Damascus, is suffering from its worst water shortages in years as a result of the lowest rainfall in more than six decades

Senate Foreign Relations Committee leaders offered rare bipartisan support for an executive action this week by President Donald Trump.

Within a span of two weeks from late April to early May 2025, Israel launched two aerial attacks ostensibly targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon: The first, on April 27, struck a building in Beirut’s southern suburbs; the second, an assault in southern Lebanon, left one person dead and eight others injured.