The Latest Breaking News from Syria

Protests in Syria: could they bring down the Assad regime?

Twelve years after the Arab Spring uprising in Syria morphed into bloody civil war, a new wave of protests against President Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime is gathering momentum, said Raja Abdulrahim in The New York Times.

The Week · Sep 8, 2023

Fears of escalation grow as dozens die in SDF-militia fighting in Syria

Arab tribesmen blame violence on ‘years-long discrimination’ by the SDF in northeast Syria.

Al Jazeera · Sep 7, 2023

Lebanese premier warns Syrian refugees pose a danger to the small nation's balance

Lebanon's caretaker prime minister is warning that Syrian refugees could become a threat to the small Mediterranean nation’s delicate demographic and sectarian balance

The Independent UK · Sep 7, 2023

Fighting between rival US-backed groups in Syria could undermine war against the Islamic State group

The weeklong clashes between rival U.S.-backed militias in eastern Syria point to dangerous seams in the coalition that has kept a lid on the defeated Islamic State group for years

The Independent UK · Sep 6, 2023

Syria's US-backed Kurdish forces hope to end weeklong clashes with militia in the 'next 24 hours'

Syria’s U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led forces are pushing deeper into the last stronghold of Arab tribesmen who have taken up arms against them in eastern Syria

The Independent UK · Sep 5, 2023

Jordan shoots down drug-laden drone from Syria in ninth incident this year

The military says a drone carrying crystal meth is intercepted after crossing the country’s border with Syria.

Al Jazeera · Sep 5, 2023

Cluster munition deaths in Ukraine pass Syria, fueling rise in a weapon the world has tried to ban

More than 300 people were killed by cluster munitions in Ukraine in 2022, surpassing Syria as the country with the highest number of deaths from the controversial weapons for the first time in a decade

The Independent UK · Sep 5, 2023

Protesters in southern Syria smash statue as they mark 2015 assassination of anti-government leader

Hundreds of angry protesters in southern Syrian have destroyed the statue of the country's late president as they marked the 2015 assassination of a prominent anti-government Druze leader

The Independent UK · Sep 4, 2023

Russia in Africa: Prigozhin's death exposes Putin's real motives on the continent

The apparent assassination of Yevgeny Prigozhin in the crash of his private jet between Moscow and St. Petersburg represents an inflection point in Russian-African relations. Prigozhin, as leader of the notorious Wagner Group, had been the point man for Russia in Africa since Wagner first began operations on the continent…

The Conversation · Sep 4, 2023

'My home city was destroyed by war but I will not lose hope' – how modern warfare turns neighbourhoods into battlefields

It has been almost 12 years since I left my city. And I have never been able to return. Homs, the place I was born and grew up, has been destroyed and I, like many others, have been left in exile: left to remember how beautiful it once was. What…

The Conversation · Sep 4, 2023