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Syria says arrested Assad-era general who led attacks on rebels

Security forces said they arrested Major General Ahmed Mohammad Ismail, a high-ranking commander in the Republican Guard of the former regime's army.

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19 September, 2026
Assala is set to perform in more concerts which have been dubbed “Awdat al-Assala” [Getty]
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Singer Assala returns to Damascus after 15-year exile

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18 September, 2026
IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi makes a speech during a press conference following the IAEA Board of Governors meeting in Vienna, Austria on November 19, 2025
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Assad's Syrian reactor was configured for nuclear weapons: IAEA

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07 September, 2026
Syrian children are seen in the children's park in Douma town of Ghouta region, which suffered the worst chemical weapons attack by the ousted Bashar Assad regime in Aleppo, Syria on December 25, 2024.
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Syria requests to join anti-chemical weapons partnership

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22 August, 2026
Journalists and photographers crowd around the defendant enclosure during the first session of Atef Najib's trial at the Palace of Justice in Damascus, Syria
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Syria justice ministry defends Assad trial, death sentence

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12 August, 2026
Ex-Syrian general defendant Khaled al-Halabi (C) covers his face as he is escorted in handcuffs to the courtroom by justice officers for the trial at the Regional Vienna's Court of Austria in Vienna, Austria, on June 1, 2026
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Austrian court sentences Syrian torturers to 8 years in jail

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06 July, 2026
Security measures are taken during the trial of Atef Najib, cousin of ousted regime leader Bashar al-Assad, at the Fourth Criminal Court in the Palace of Justice in Damascus,
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Syria trial opens for Assad cousin accused of war crimes

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
24 June, 2026
Syrians raise flowers as they celebrate the fall of the Assad regime in Syria on December 8, 2024 in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
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How Assad-era trials will test Syria's transition

Nadda O.
22 June, 2026
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Assad-era officers, doctors confess to detainee organ removals

Louay Faour
20 June, 2026
Assad Regime's intelligence centers continue to expose following reg
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Damascus offers to help Europe hunt Syrian war crimes suspects

The New Arab Staff
04 June, 2026
Syrian Government Forces deploy to Qamishli following agreement
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Syrian authorities arrest Assad-era military general

The New Arab Staff
09 May, 2026
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Syria ‘to dissolve’ controversial Political Affairs Secretariat

The New Arab Staff
06 May, 2026
Former head of political security in south Syria's Daraa province, Atif Najib attends the first trial session at the Palace of Justice
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Syria's first trial of Assad-era officials opens in Damascus

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
26 April, 2026
An aerial street view in Tadamon, a neighbourhood in Syrian capital Damascus. Human bones are still being found in Tadamon, the site of an infamous 2013 massacre, months after the Assad regime fell.
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Amjad Youssef, key suspect in Syria’s Tadamon massacre, detained

The New Arab Staff
24 April, 2026
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov delivers his annual end-of-year press conference at the Russian Foreign Ministry headquarters in Moscow on January 20, 2026. (Photo by TATYANA MAKEYEVA / AFP via Getty Images)
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Russia suggests Syria has dropped push to prosecute Assad

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
30 January, 2026
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Syrian leader to meet Putin, Russia seeks deal on military bases

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
28 January, 2026
Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa gives a speech during a gathering at the Conference Palace on the first anniversary of Bashar al-Assad's fall in Damascus, Syria on December 08, 2025.
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Sharaa vows to promote coexistence, one year after Assad's fall

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
09 December, 2025
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Why Syria needs better governance...and a new kind of opposition

Joseph Daher

Joseph Daher

09 December, 2025
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Syria's revolution: An interactive timeline one year after Assad

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08 December, 2025
Syrians destroy statues and regime symbols in Damascus, Syria, on December 18, 2024, after the fall of Bashar al-Assad's rule, marking the victory of the Syrian revolution.
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'It's all over': how Iran abandoned Assad to his fate days before fall

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07 December, 2025
A defaced poster of Bashar al-Assad is seen outside a Syrian Army recruitment center on December 22, 2024 in Damascus, Syria
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'God damn Ghouta': Leaked footage shows Assad mocking Syria

The New Arab Staff
06 December, 2025