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Donors pledged 5.8 billion euros in aid for Syria at the Brussels conference [Getty]
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EU donors pledge 5.8 bn euros for Syria, down on last year

At a donor conference in Brussels, international pledges for Syria's recovery reached 5.8 billion euros, with the EU stepping up its commitment.

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
18 March, 2025
Syrian army reinforces the border with Lebanon
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Everything we know about the Syria-Lebanon border clashes

The New Arab Staff
17 March, 2025
A road sign marks the entrance to Kobani, northern Syria
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Syria's Kurdish-led forces blame Turkey for strikes killing nine

The New Arab Staff
17 March, 2025
Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock addresses media representatives as she arrives for an European Union Foreign Affairs Council Meeting at The Europa Building in Brussels
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Germany pledges funds to Syria amid EU aid conference

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
17 March, 2025
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Al-Shaibani attends the Syrian National Dialogue Conference on February 25, 2025 in Damascus, Syria.
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Syria's new rulers seek aid boost at EU conference

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
16 March, 2025
The new Syrian government's army fights the remaining elements of the Assad's regime on the Syrian coast near Latakia, Syria, on March 7, 2025
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Syria authorities accuse Hezbollah of killing three soldiers

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
16 March, 2025
Families of those detained by forces of the ousted Baath regime gather at the March 18th Square to learn the fate of their relatives, of whom they have not heard for years in Daraa, Syria on March 16, 2025. (Photo by Bakr Al Kasem/Anadolu via Getty)
Post-Assad Syria
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Families of Syria's disappeared call on govt to continue search

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
16 March, 2025
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Erdogan, Trump discuss Ukraine, Syria, defence issues: Turkey

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
16 March, 2025
A street vendor sells juices next to the debris of destroyed buildings as Syrian people spend their first holy month of Ramadan after the end of Assad's regime in Aleppo, Syria, on March 12, 2025. (HIBATULLAH BARAKAT/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty)
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Turkey calls on EU to lift Syria sanctions

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
16 March, 2025
A member of the security forces of the new Syrian authorities shows Captagon pills found in a compound of the ousted president Bashar al-Assad's forces in Damascus on January 7, 2025. (Photo by BAKR ALKASEM/AFP via Getty Images)
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Iraq says seized one tonne of captagon from Syria via Turkey

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
16 March, 2025
Civil defense teams conduct search and rescue operations among the rubbles of a house after an explosion in a four-story building in Latakia, northwestern Syria, on March 15, 2025. (Photo by Sevket Akca/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Blast from suspected old bomb in Syria's Latakia kills 16

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
16 March, 2025
This aerial photograph shows a partial view of Syria's coastal city of Latakia on March 12, 2025.
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Death toll from explosion in Syria's Latakia increases to 10

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
15 March, 2025
The first passenger plane belonging to Syrian Airlines that took off from Damascus Airport, which became operational again after the fall of the Baath regime in Syria, lands at Aleppo Airport in Aleppo, Syria on December 18, 2024
Post-Assad Syria
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Airport to reopen in Syria's second city Aleppo

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
15 March, 2025
People chant and wave national flags as they celebrate the fourteenth anniversary of Syria's uprising at a rally in Umayyad Square in Damascus on March 15, 2025.
Post-Assad Syria
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Syrians celebrate first uprising anniversary of post-Assad era

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
15 March, 2025
The UN Security Council urged the Syrian government to protect all Syrians
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UNSC urges Syria to protect people regardless of religion

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
15 March, 2025
Israel seeks to weaken and divide Syria through military force
Occupied Golan Heights
Perspectives

Free Syria scares Israel, that's why it sows hatred and occupies

Joseph Daher

Joseph Daher

14 March, 2025
Ahmed Ragheed Al-Tatari spent 43 years in prison for defying orders to bomb Hama [Getty]
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Syria pilot who spent 43 years in jail given 'Benevolence Award'

The New Arab Staff
14 March, 2025
Iraqi PM says ISIS leader for Iraq and Syria killed [Getty]
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Islamic State leader in Iraq and Syria Abu Khadija killed

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
14 March, 2025
Syria's interim Foreign Minister makes keynote visit to Baghdad [Getty]
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Syria's interim foreign minister Asaad al-Shaibani visits Iraq

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
14 March, 2025
Sheikh Hikmat Salman al-Hijri, the spiritual leader of the Druze, speaks during an exclusive interview on the occasion of the collapse of the 61-year Baathist regime in Damascus, Syria on December 26, 2024
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Druze leader says no agreement with 'radical' Syria government

The New Arab Staff
14 March, 2025
Druze clerics from Syria visit Israel for the first time for religious pilgrimage [Getty]
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Syrian Druze clerics head to Israel for first pilgrimage

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
14 March, 2025