In a bunker with a woman battlefield commander in Syria: ‘To be under the control of a patriarchal husband? I prefer to be here’
Battle-hardened officer lives like a soldier ready for action to safeguard ‘the people’
Battle-hardened officer lives like a soldier ready for action to safeguard ‘the people’
Is the man once known as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani intent on moderating or a brutal strongman?
Recent military action suggests IDF working to ensure enemies unable to deploy near borders
Ahmed Al-Sharaa has pledged to make Syria ‘inclusive’ and respect all minorities
Kurdish community to get citizenship and language rights denied under Assad regime
Clashes between Assad fighters and country’s new Islamist rulers kill more than 1,000 people, mostly civilians
Minority group supports Bashar al-Assad and is now subject to reprisal attacks
More than 1,000 people have been killed in two days of fighting in Alawite region, war monitor says
Violence deals blow to interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa’s rule of shattered country
Tishreen Dam, on the Euphrates river, has become a flashpoint in the conflict between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces and the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army
Trump spending freeze threatens security arrangements and could make it harder to stop resurgence of Islamic State
During my visit, an administrator says ‘that’s correct’ when I ask if many detainees had died from tuberculosis, and ‘no answer’ when I request the exact figure
“This is not the Ireland I grew up in. It’s gone so far now! They are just letting everyone in,” he says, and I’m not sure if he wants me to respond as a migrant or an Irish person
Abdullah Ocalan is serving life sentence, but could be freed under tentative Turkish peace process
Eyvon Bastouri from Syria came to Ireland in 2016. She has a busy life, juggling two children and her own projects, including her fledgling baking business
After years of economic misery, discontent with the regime of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi could explode into protest in Egypt
Amer Matar, who fled Syria in 2011, runs an online archive that helps people to search for information about their loved ones
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West Bank at risk of even more violence, and events in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria have significantly weakened Iranian regime
The residents of Yarmouk ‘need help rebuilding’ the enclave of the Palestinian diaspora, which was reduced to rubble by Syrian and Russian air forces
Regional and western ministers along with senior diplomats pursue ways to advance country’s recovery
Binyamin Netanyahu’s order for Israeli troops to ‘take over’ a buffer zone with Syria upended decades of relative calm along the de-facto border between the two countries
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has held talks with European and US officials, as well regional government ministers
Critics fear rebel-backed government is pushing religious vision on to what has long been a secular country
Trump’s re-election fuels global turmoil in which Putin is the biggest of many autocrats blending kleptocracy and dictatorship. US institutions and international treaties are fading, and Ukraine and Palestine have been betrayed
Residents returning to Tadamon, once a rebel stronghold near Damascus, find mass graves and expropriated homes
In the space of a single year, the Islamic Republic of Iran effectively lost three of the key elements in its so-called axis of resistance
Clash broke out in Tartous province, a stronghold of the ousted president Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite minority
Assad was diagnosed with acute form of disease in May and has been given 50/50 chance of survival
Syria cautions Iran on spreading chaos in country; and Israel fails to curb armed gangs looting Gaza food convoys
The future is far from certain, but over juice and cakes one group of relatives celebrates finally being in the same room together
As China and Russia weigh up their options in anticipation of Donald Trump’s second presidency, horrified countries in the Global South see Gaza as an emblem of US and European double standards
US diplomats discuss transition principles with representatives of Syria’s new de facto rulers led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham
Moscow ‘ready for negotiations and compromises’ to end the fighting, Russian president says during carefully controlled press conference
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