The Latest Breaking News from Syria

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Over 100,000 Syrians were disappeared by the Assad regime. At a hospital in Damascus, their families search desperately.

Geir Pedersen warns of intense clashes between Turkish-backed and Kurdish groups in the north

Syria's new rulers stepped up engagement on Tuesday with countries that deemed ousted president Bashar al-Assad a pariah, with the French flag raised at the embassy for the first time in over a decade.

Burial sites are emerging across Syria after the ousting of al-Assad, accused of widespread extrajudicial killings.

Palestinian medics say an Israeli strike in Gaza killed at least eight people from the same family, most of them women and children

A French diplomatic mission will travel to the Syrian capital Damascus this Tuesday to reestablish contact after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, acting Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said. Likewise, the US, the UK and other countries are investigating how they might normalise relations with the new regime.

HTS leader Ahmed al-Sharaa says fighters will all be ‘subject to the law’ as he emphasises need for unity in post-war Syria

After the fall of the Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, the world was moved by emotional scenes of liberation — families reuniting after years of separation and former prisoners walking free from the brutal conditions of Assad’s prisons.

Biden’s visionless Iran policy gives way to a return to ‘maximum pressure’

A UK delegation has met the head of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an organisation that is banned in the UK.