Post-Assad Syria

Latest news, analysis, commentary on fall of the Assad regime in Syria on 8 December 2024, following the successful Syrian Rebel Offensive

An aerial photograph shows the Qasrak Base after the withdrawal of US forces and its handover to Syrian government forces
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Syria said it had taken control of all military bases hosting US troops who were deployed in the country as part of the anti-Islamic State group coalition.

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
16 April, 2026
A statue of the Virgin Mary overlooks a hillside town after the Mar Elias Church bombing in Damascus, Syria on June 24, 2025.
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Men walk past the UAE Embassy in the capital Damascus on December 12, 2024
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People try to continue their daily life in a buffer zone in Syriaâs Quneitra province, marked by numbered and colored barrels, following the fall of the Baath regime, where Israeli forces have carried out hundreds of violations and raids on March 31, 2026
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Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa started a visit to Berlin on Monday for talks on the Middle East war, rebuilding his country and the return of refugees, with critics saying his record on human rights is being ignored. On his first trip to Germany since ousting his country's longtime strongman, Bashar al-Assad, in late 2024, Sharaa met his German counterpart, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, on Monday morning before talks with Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt. Chancellor Friedrich Mer
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Syrian rebel leader and founder of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) Riad al-Asaad
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A United Nations convoy evacuating families from Sweida moves through the buffer zone in Busra al-Harir in Syria's southern Daraa province
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