Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa attends the “Aleppo, Key to Victory” celebration marking Syria’s liberation, in Aleppo, May 27, 2025.© (photo credit: REUTERS/KHALIL ASHAWI) ...

After ousting Syria’s longtime dictator from power last year, ending more than a decade of brutal civil war, the country’s new interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa has pledged to embrace human ...

(Beirut) – Nine days of armed clashes and serious abuses in Syria’s southern Sweida governorate have triggered a dire humanitarian crisis, Human Rights Watch said today. The fighting between ...

A Syrian government investigation says more than 1,400 people died in sectarian violence along the coast earlier this year.

Sectarian clashes between Druze fighters and Bedouin militia began in the southern Syrian province about 10 days ago.

Syrian National Army (SNA) factions that fought the Assad government with backing from Türkiye continue to detain, mistreat, and extort civilians in northern Syria, Human Rights Watch said today.

Syria's new president pledged to disband all militias in this multi-ethnic, multi-sectarian country after the collapse of the Bashar al-Assad regime last December.

Under the leadership of Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria has achieved what was once unthinkable. After a meeting in Riyadh between al-Sharaa and U.S. President Donald Trump (the first time a U ...

The committee’s report came as Syria reels from a new round of sectarian violence in the south, which threatens to upend the country’s fragile recovery after nearly 14 years of civil war.

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — More than 1,400 people were killed in several days of sectarian violence on Syria 's coast earlier this year, a government investigating committee said Tuesday.