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Bashar Assad's departure, new Syrian leadership, U.S. talks, IS threat, Israeli airstrikes - recent developments in Syria.

Self-serving meddling by Israel, Turkey and other foreign powers puts the revolution at risk. They should back off now

Kurdish authorities have made overtures to Islamist-led rebels who seized power in Syria last week, but the long-oppressed community fears it could lose hard-won gains it made during the war, including limited self-rule.

Thousands of Afghans on Thursday attended the funeral of the refugees minister, AFP journalists saw, after he was killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul the day before in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group.

Thousands of people have attended the funeral of a Taliban government minister killed in an Islamic State suicide bombing the previous day

As a new government is set to form in Syria following a sudden coup earlier this week, the United States’ response to the political upheaval appears uncertain.

After more than a decade of brutal civil war, it took Islamist militants just 11 days to sweep through Syria and topple the regime of Bashar al-Assad. The offensive, which has been driven by the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), has forced many residents in…

US voices concern over continuing offensive by Turkish-backed rebel groups against Kurdish groups guarding prisons and camps

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