Al-Sharaa’s trip, planned for November 10, will be first-ever visit by a Syrian president to the White House. United States President Donald Trump will host Syria’s interim leader, Ahmad al-Sharaa, for talks on November 10, according to Washington’s envoy to Damascus, in what would mark the first-ever visit by a Syrian president to the US…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump has withdrawn the nomination of Joel Rayburn, an envoy for Syria during his first White House term, to be assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, two sources familiar with the matter said on Monday. The Republican president nominated Rayburn in February for the State Department position overseeing…
The British government on Tuesday removed Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the group which spearheaded the Syrian rebel alliance that helped oust President Bashar al-Assad, from its list of banned terrorist organisations. HTS, a former al Qaeda affiliate, was proscribed in 2017, meaning that Britain designated it as a terrorist group, making it illegal to support…
new video loaded: We Investigated Assad’s Fugitive Henchmen Haley Willis and Christiaan Triebert, reporters from the Times’s Visual Investigations team, share findings from their ongoing reporting project on the roles and whereabouts of henchmen for Bashar al-Assad, the former Syrian president. These key officials powered Assad’s brutal regime for years. Where are they now? By…
The Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad was the face of the regime, but he was far from alone. During his two decades in power — and over the course of a 13-year civil war that left half a million people dead — Mr. al-Assad’s many enforcers oversaw the torture of political prisoners. They developed and deployed…
The trip will be Ahmed al-Sharaa’s first official visit to Russia, a longtime ally of the former Bashar al-Assad regime. Published On 14 Oct 202514 Oct 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa will visit Russia on Wednesday to meet with President Vladimir Putin, Syria’s state news agency…
(Reuters) -The Syrian army and the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) reached a ceasefire deal in two districts of Aleppo city, Syria’s state news agency SANA reported on Tuesday, following a spike in tensions between the two sides. The Syrian army had redeployed along several frontlines with the Kurdish-led group in northeast Syria, the Defence…
A federal immigration judge has ordered Mahmoud Khalil — a former Columbia University graduate student linked to pro-Palestinian protests — to be deported to either Algeria or Syria. The ruling was issued last week, but it first came to light in court papers filed by Khalil’s lawyers on Wednesday as part of his lawsuit against…
لم يكن هناك مكان في سوريا أكثر رعباً من سجن صيدنايا خلال عقود الحكم الاستبدادي لعائلة الأسد. يقع سجن صيدنايا على تلة قاحلة في ضواحي دمشق العاصمة، وكان في صميم نظام آل الأسد الواسع من سجون التعذيب والاعتقالات التعسفية المستخدم لسحق كل أشكال المعارضة. بحلول نهاية الحرب الأهلية التي استمرت قرابة ١٤ عاماً وانتهت في…
No place in Syria was more feared than Sednaya prison during the Assad family’s decades-long, iron-fisted rule. Situated on a barren hilltop on the outskirts of Damascus, the capital, Sednaya was at the heart of the Assads’ extensive system of torture prisons and arbitrary arrests used to crush all dissent. By the end of the…