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  • Footage shows secret underground tunnels used by Assad regime in Syria

    President Bashar al-Assad fled to Moscow on Sunday with his family

  • Iran’s armed forces ‘at war with themselves’ over fall of Assad

    A furious blame game is unfolding among Iran’s armed forces over the fall of Bashar al-Assad, The Telegraph has learned.

  • Israel’s warplanes pound Syria as it destroys Assad’s naval fleet

    After the fall of the Assad regime, the Israeli military has taken control of a UN-controlled buffer zone in the Golan Heights and hit targets across the country

  • Putin and I are the only significant world leaders left, Erdogan says

    Turkish-backed rebels claim to have seized a city in northern Syria from US-backed Kurdish militants.

  • West should not fear us, Syria’s rebel leader insists

    The leader of the Syrian rebel coalition which toppled the Assad dynasty has sought to reassure Western nations they have nothing to fear from his victory.

  • Syria rebels burn tomb of Bashar al-Assad's father

    Armed men are seen celebrating in Hafez al-Assad's burning mausoleum in the family's hometown.

  • Israel says it will destroy Syria's heavy strategic weaponry

    JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel will step up airstrikes on Syrian stores of advanced weaponry, Israeli officials said on Monday, and keep a "limited" troop presence on the ground, hoping to head off any threat that could emerge in the fallout of president Bashar al-Assad's overthrow. Israel has watched the upheaval in Syria with a mixture of hope and concern as it weighs the consequences of one of the most significant strategic shifts in the Middle East in years. "We are taking all the actions necessary to try to ensure our security with regard to the new situation in Syria," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told reporters in a late-night press conference at his office without going into detail.

  • Syria – live: Tomb of Assad’s father set on fire by rebels while Israel strikes Syrian military 480 times

    Israel denies penetrating Syria beyond buffer zone in occupied Golan Heights

  • Syria in maps: Who controls the country now Assad has gone?

    A visual guide to the latest developments as advancing Syrian fighters set their sights on Damascus.

  • Syrian 1930s independence flag flies again across the globe

    Supporters of the rebels who ousted president Bashar al-Assad have entered Syrian embassies around the world to tear down the old order’s two-starred Syrian flags, which had been the country’s official banner since 1980.

  • US will support new Syrian government that renounces terrorism, protects rights: Blinken

    Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday outlined some of the Biden administration’s requirements for supporting a new government in Syria, after a rebel military alliance ousted longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad from power in recent days. Abu Mohammed al-Golani, who has been designated a terrorist by the U.S., has emerged as the leading figure in…

  • What next for ex-Isis supporters like Shamima Begum after Assad's fall?

    Begum is among tens of thousands of people being held in northern Syrian detention camps that house former Isis families and those displaced by conflict.

  • Sudan air strike causes 'horrific massacre' in a Darfur market

    With violence escalating across the country, the attack took place as people gathered for a weekly market.

  • Like being cleared of a 'cancer': Syrians in Windsor react to end of Assad regime

    It's a seismic shift in the Middle East, and one many Windsorites are feeling personally: The Assad regime in Syria has fallen and the ousted leader has fled the country."If you imagine a cancer taking over somebody's body, and you're cleared of that cancer, that's the way it is," said Mamdouh Mohieddin.Mohieddin was born in Syria, just outside Damascus, and owns a computer repair shop. He's lived in Windsor for about 20 years, after coming to Canada via school and work in Detroit. Mohieddin say

  • Vandals burn a car and spray graffiti in latest antisemitic attack in Australia

    Vandals torched a car and sprayed graffiti with anti-Israel slogans including an apparently misspelled “Kill Israiel" on Wednesday in a Sydney suburb that is home to Australia's largest Jewish community. Officials condemned the attack as antisemitic. The incident in the eastern suburb of Woollahra came after federal police this week established a task force to investigate increasing antisemitic crimes across the country.

  • Victims of world’s only famine eat peanut shells to survive

    The coarse paste of crushed peanut shells called ombaz is normally considered waste, and only fit to feed cattle. But for many in Sudan’s Zamzam camp it is now all they have to stave off hunger pangs.

  • Blinken lays out US hopes for Syria's political transition

    The United States on Tuesday laid out its hopes for Syria's political transition following Assad's ouster, saying it would recognize a future Syrian government that amounts to a credible, inclusive and non-sectarian governing body. It is the clearest definition outlined by Washington since Syria's opposition militias overthrew President Bashar al-Assad in a shockingly fast takeover after 13 years of civil war. The Biden administration, along with governments in the region and the West has been scrambling to find ways to engage with the Syrian rebel groups including leading rebel faction Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a group formerly allied with Al Qaeda and which is designated a terrorist organization by the U.S., European Union, Turkey and the U.N.

  • Israel 'more optimistic' on prospects of Gaza hostage deal

    Israel is now more optimistic about a possible hostage deal in Gaza, Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Monday, amid reports that Hamas had asked for lists of all hostages still held by militant groups in the Palestinian enclave. He said indirect negotiations were under way about the return of about 100 hostages and that, while it was still too early to be sure, prospects had improved.

  • US says it will support new Syrian leaders who protect women and renounce terrorism

    The Biden administration said Tuesday it will recognize and support a new Syrian government that renounces terrorism, destroys chemical weapons stocks and protects the rights of minorities and women. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement that the U.S. would work with groups in Syria and regional partners to ensure that the transition from President Bashar Assad’s deposed government runs smoothly. The qualified pledge of support for a post-Assad Syria comes as the Biden administration targets Islamic State fighters to try to prevent the group from reemerging as an international threat and maintains support for Israel as its forces conduct their own operations inside Syria.

  • These Palestinians disappeared after encounters with Israeli troops in Gaza

    DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Reem Ajour says she last saw her husband and then 4-year-old daughter in March, when Israeli soldiers raided a family home in northern Gaza. The military says it does not have them. Troops leveled the house where they were staying soon after the raid.