Syria

1 day ago - Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north and northwest, Iraq to the east and southeast, Jordan to the south, and Israel and Lebanon to the southwest.

1 week ago - Bilateral Relations and Engagement Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs Geopolitical and Regional Policy Syria

On December 8, 2024, a coalition of armed opposition groups led by Hay’et Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) overthrew the government of Bashar al-Assad, ending over 50 years of Baath party rule in Syria. Accountability and justice for abuses under the al-Assad government require urgent collection and ...

1 day ago - Ahmed al-Sharaa and Donald Trump hold first White House summit between a US and Syrian leader since 1946

October 31, 2025 - Syria has been designated a State Sponsor of Terrorism since December 1979. Additional sanctions and restrictions were added in May 2004 with the issuance of Executive Order 13338, which implemented the Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty ...

Tens of thousands of people remained arbitrarily detained or forcibly disappeared. More than 56,000 people continued to be subjected to human rights violations in the custody of the autonomous authorities in north-eastern Syria. Following the overthrow of President Assad’s government, opposition groups freed detainees held in the former government’s detention facilities across Syria.

“The future of Syria is in the balance:” UN Commission sounds alarm on renewed violence amid hopes for justice and peace 30 October 2025 العربية | English

15 hours ago - The barrage of airstrikes launched by the United States across Syria late on Friday underscored the challenges facing the country’s president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, as he struggles to assert control over the nation and navigate a nascent relationship with President Trump.

The ongoing war in Syria has left over 15 million people in need of aid. The vast majority of Syrians live in poverty.

Explore Syrian Civil War news on live map in English. Civil war and International intervention in Syria. War on terrorism in Syria

1 day ago - Syria's government is led by former rebels who toppled leader Bashar al-Assad last year after a 13-year civil war, and includes members of Syria's former Al Qaeda branch who broke with the group and clashed with Islamic State.

1 day ago - The U.S. military launched retaliatory strikes on Friday against dozens of ISIS targets in Syria, according to a statement issued by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on social media.

6 days ago - Two US soldiers and a US civilian interpreter have been killed in Syria in an ambush by an Islamic State (IS) gunman, the US Central Command (Centcom) has said.

1 day ago - President Donald Trump had pledged “very serious retaliation” after the shooting in the Syrian desert, for which he blamed IS. Those killed were among hundreds of U.S. troops deployed in eastern Syria as part of a coalition fighting the militant group. On Friday Trump reiterated his backing for Syrian interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa, who Trump said was “fully in support” of the U.S.

October 21, 2025 - This website offers refugees and internally displaced Syrians clear information about their rights, answers to common questions about voluntary return, and provides guidance on how to access support and services available in Syria.

8 hours ago - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights tells AFP that “at least five members of the Islamic State group were killed” in US strikes overnight in eastern Syria’s Deir Ezzor province, including the leader of a cell responsible for drones in the area.

1 day ago - Driving the news: The Strike started around 4pm ET. Many of the targets attacked were in northeast Syria near the city of Deir ez-Zur close to the border with Iraq and near the cities of Raqqa in northern Syria and Homs in the center of the country.