May 30, 2025 - The Assad regime has fallen in Syria. It’s a historic turning point in the 14-year-long civil war. The situation is fast-moving and control is still shifting between different armed groups and opposition forces.

3 days ago - The strikes in Syria are in retaliation for the deaths on Saturday of three Americans in Palmyra, Syria, by what CENTCOM said was a lone ISIS gunman who was later killed. President Donald Trump said the strikes were "inflicting very serious retaliation, just as I promised, on the murderous terrorists responsible" for the attack. Trump added that the strikes were happening "against ISIS strongholds in Syria" and that Syria’s new government is "is fully in support."

2 weeks ago - “But now we’re a year into the liberation, if assassinations keep happening every day, where will that leave us?” ... Soldiers conduct checks during a temporary curfew in Homs after a double killing last month. Photograph: Abobaker Alsaka/Anadolu/Getty Images · The question of justice is now inseparable, many Syrians say, from a broader debate over the shape of the new, post-Assad Syrian state.

1 week ago - On December 8, 2024, the dictator who had led Syria for more than two decades was ousted from power in a rebel offensive. In the year since Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia, Syrians have attempted to recover in the aftermath of both his removal ...

2 days ago - On 14 January 2022, in the rebel-held ... Syria, a car bomb went off killing one and wounding several bystanders. According to a rescue worker, an improvised explosive device had been housed inside a car and then the car was planted near a local transport office in the city which is close to the Turkish border. In the town of al Bab, a suicide bomb went off wounding three and in the city of Afrin, another suicide bomb went off at a roundabout. All these three bombings happened in a span ...

2 days ago - Syria reiterated its steadfast commitment to fighting Islamic State and ensuring that it has "no safe havens on Syrian territory," according to a statement by the foreign ministry. Two U.S. Army soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed on Saturday in the central Syrian town of Palmyra by an attacker who targeted a convoy of American and Syrian forces before being shot dead, according to the U.S.

A US official told Al-Hadath: Iranian weapons are being smuggled into northeastern Syria where the SDF forces are in control. ... Three SDF tanks were disabled as a result of Turkish airstrikes on the M4 highway near the town of Ain Issa, east ...

2 weeks ago - Russia imposed strict conditions on al-Assad's stay when granting asylum in April 2025, according to Russian Ambassador to Iraq Elbrus Kutrashev. Al-Assad must refrain from all media appearances and political activities, Kutrashev told the Islamic Republic News Agency. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claimed in September that al-Assad was hospitalised in critical condition after suspected poisoning.

November 17, 2025 - Syrians are facing a severe economic and banking crisis, ongoing conflict, and many years of severe drought contributing to serious wildfires in some areas. In conflict areas, there is widespread damage to municipal water systems, schools, hospitals ...

1 day ago - This research briefing describes the key actors in Syria; continuing violence and human rights concerns; the status of Syria’s chemical weapons; the significance of Assad’s fall to his allies Iran and Hezbollah and the attempts of Russia to retain its Syrian bases; Israeli actions in the Golan Heights; actions by the interim government; and the strength of Islamic State/Daesh.

February 24, 2025 - Yet, the country must contend with the aftermath of nearly 14 years of brutal conflict where it is estimated that least 500,000 people were killed and more than 13 million forcibly displaced.

1 day ago - A year ago, Syria’s new leader pledged to 'close the notorious prisons' run by Bashar al-Assad. But prisons and detention centers are again operating. And beatings, extortion and other abuses have reappeared.

Since a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon came into effect on 27 November, over 828,000 displaced people - largely Lebanese - returned to their areas of origin. ... Thousands of Syrian refugees have reportedly started returning to the country ...

5 days ago - President Donald Trump touted a “massive strike” he ordered to target Islamic State group fighters and weapons sites in Syria in retaliation for an ambush attack that killed two U.S.

Destruction or damage to thousands of schools and massive displacement of families has left many children out of school, putting them at greater risk of child labour, child marriage, trafficking, and recruitment and use by parties to conflict. Over a decade of devastating conflict has also left communities across Syria littered with deadly remnants of war, including hundreds of thousands of pieces of unexploded ordnance scattered across the country.

December 15, 2024 - An abrupt end to the Syrian civil war, which has lasted over a decade and caused a humanitarian catastrophe and refugee crisis. How has it impacted civilians?

Before the overthrow of the government, more than 13 years of crisis had already driven humanitarian needs inside Syria to record levels amid widespread destruction of homes and infrastructure and economic collapse. Intensified Israeli attacks on neighbouring Lebanon since October 2024 forced hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees and Lebanese to cross the border into Syria, worsening an already desperate situation.