Syria unveiled its new currency bills, just over a year after a lightning insurgency ousted former president Bashar al-Assad and ended his family's decades-long rule of the country.
Thousands of documents and interviews with Assad-era officials reveal how the regime worked to conceal evidence of its ...
We documented how the dictator Bashar al-Assad and his henchmen conspired to hide evidence of torture and deaths of detainees ...
President al-Sharaa introduced redesigned bills featuring agricultural symbols, such as oranges and olives, entering ...
Assad, images of the former dictator persist throughout Syria, not least on the country's banknotes. On December 30, the ...
Syria’s government has ordered soldiers to guard a mass grave created to conceal atrocities under Bashar al-Assad.
Within weeks of the report in October, the new government created a checkpoint at the entrance to the military installation ...
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The scale is no longer disputed. The UN Human Rights Council-mandated Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic has estimated that between 2011 and May 2021, more than 580,000 people were ...
Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is living in near-isolation in Russia, sidelined by President Vladimir Putin, one year after fleeing Syria following the collapse of his rule, according to a ...
DAMASCUS, Syria — As they mark the first anniversary this week of toppling Bashar al-Assad's regime, Syrians are also celebrating another likely milestone. The U.S. is on the verge of removing ...
Extensive Russian influence in Syria goes back to the Soviet era and survived the collapse of the USSR and the end of communism. It appears that now Russian influence in Syria has survived the fall of ...