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

Security forces from the interim government stand guard at a checkpoint previously held by supporters of deposed president Bashar al-Assad, in the town of Hmeimim, in the coastal province of Latakia, on March 11, 2025. (OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP via Getty)
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Thousands still missing after Syria coastal violence: SOHR

The rights observatory says many people are still missing after this month's sectarian violence in northwest Syria, with hundreds of bodies still at morgues

The New Arab Staff
23 March, 2025
A member of the Iraqi police forces guards Our Lady of the...
Post-Assad Syria
MENA
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Baghdad bars ex-Syrian officers from leaving military camp

Mohammad Ali
The New Arab Staff
23 March, 2025
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Syria: Israel bombs Tadmur airbase as troops advance in Quneitra

The New Arab Staff
Diaa al-Sahnawi
22 March, 2025
Syria military base [Getty]
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MENA
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Israel strikes two military bases in central Syria

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
22 March, 2025
An aerial view shows the Burj al-Sabi tower in the coastal Syrian city of Baniyas, on December 18, 2024. (Photo by OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP via Getty Images)
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Russia ships its Arctic oil to Syria for first time as sanctions limit buyers

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
21 March, 2025
A flag of Zainebiyoun Division is waved during the funeral ceremony of Iranian adviser in Syria, Razi Mousavi at the Imam Hossein Square in Tehran, Iran on December 28, 2023. (Photo by HOSSEIN BERIS/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
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Head of pro-Iran armed faction arrested in Syria: monitor

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
21 March, 2025
Kurdish communities across Syria marked a historic Nowruz on Thursday [Getty]
Nowruz
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Thousands of Syrian Kurds celebrate first post-Assad Nowruz

The New Arab Staff
21 March, 2025
A Group Of Syrian Women Organized A Sit-in In Front Of The Presidential Palace In Damascus, demanding the new government press the Lebanese government to release Syrian detainees, on December 30, 2024.(Photo by Rami Alsayed/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Lebanon
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Lebanon preparing to repatriate hundreds of Syrian inmates

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
21 March, 2025
Thousands of foreign fighters from Yemen to Afghanistan were brought to Syria by Iran to fight for Assad
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Syria could revoke 740,000 foreign Assad fighters' citizenships

The New Arab Staff
21 March, 2025
Aid convoys deployed to relieve violence-hit coastal regions in Syria [Getty]
Syria
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Syrian aid convoys deployed to help victims of coastal violence

The New Arab Staff
21 March, 2025
Syrian television [Getty]
Film and Television
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Syrians perplexed by appointment of Tunisian as TV drama chief

The New Arab Staff
21 March, 2025
The Syrian army dispatch reinforcement units consisting of hundreds of vehicles to Latakia on March 08, 2025 in Jabla, Syria. (Photo by Abdulkerim Muhammed/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Germany urges Syrian interim leaders to control extremist groups

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
21 March, 2025
Syrian security forces caught Mahfoud in a targeted raid of his hideout
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MENA
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Syria arrests Assad commander accused of war crimes, robberies

The New Arab Staff
20 March, 2025
The families of Syria's disappeared have put up posters in Damascus desperately pleading for information [Getty]
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SNHR increases estimate of Syria’s disappeared to over 177,000

The New Arab Staff
20 March, 2025
ussian President Vladimir Putin speaks during the Board of the Prosecutor-General Main Office, March 19, 2025, in Moscow, Russia.
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MENA
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Putin offers Syria's Sharaa support and cooperation

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
20 March, 2025
Palestinians ride vehicles with their belongings as they flee from the northern Gaza Strip toward the south, via the Salah al-Din road near the Nusseirat refugee camp, on March 20, 2025.
Gaza War
MENA
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'Not Syria or anywhere else': Gazans reject any displacement

Sally Ibrahim
20 March, 2025
Latakia remains a hotspot for the activities of Assad regime loyalists
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Latakia residents to disarm following Syria coast bloodbath

The New Arab Staff
20 March, 2025
Annalena Baerbock (C), Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany, arrives for a group photo during the 9th International Conference in Support of Syria at the European Council headquarters on March 17, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium.
Post-Assad Syria
MENA
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Germany reopens its embassy in Syria, 13 years after closure

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
20 March, 2025
The leader of the SDF attended the meeting with representatives of the Syrian government
Post-Assad Syria
MENA
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Syrian government begins talks to integrate SDF forces into army

The New Arab Staff
20 March, 2025
Man walks past two burned out cars
Syrian revolution
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Syria's rulers must change course to honour the revolution

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Burhan Ghalioun

19 March, 2025
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Iraq
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Iraqi tribal leaders call for volunteers to fight Syrian army

Dana Taib Menmy
19 March, 2025