Among the various emoji updates in Apple's iOS 18.4, users might notice that Syria's flag emoji has been changed to reflect the rapid developments that have taken place since December. The new flag ...

In 480 BC, 300 men fought against the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. With no help from their ...

For over a decade, the United States has poured energy, resources, and diplomatic capital into Syria, chasing an elusive goal ...

That and HTS’s past affiliation with Sunni Muslim extremist al-Qaida, has minorities suspicious. An elderly Druze man stands near Syria’s new flag and the multi-colored flag of the Islamic offshoot in ...

Front row left to right, Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani and European Commissioner for the ...

Some of the worst violence in years drives members of a minority sect linked to fallen Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad to flee ...

Days before his troops overthrew the regime of Bashar Assad, Ahmad al-Sharaa declared that Syria deserves a system in which no “single ruler makes arbitrary decisions.” Sharaa, once a feared ...

By Megha Rajagopalan Megha Rajagopalan reported from Damascus, Syria. She interviewed former chemical weapons scientists and nonproliferation experts. More than 100 chemical weapons sites are ...

Illustrative of an Israel flag and Syria flag, with soldiers and weapons. (credit: SHUTTERSTOCK) Al-Tamimi regarded the new Syrian ruler, Ahmed al-Sharaa, as “a leader who appeared seemingly out ...

For all intents and purposes, Syria fit the definition of a stubbornly intractable crisis. However, that all changed in late 2024, when armed opposition groups in Syria’s northwest launched a sudden ...

Ms. Hall is a senior fellow with the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Four months after the euphoria that marked the sudden ouster of Bashar al-Assad ...