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Dec. 11AMMAN His Majesty King Abdullah on Wednesday received Iraq Prime Minister Mohammed Al Sudani to discuss current regional developments. Discussions covered the importance of enhancing cooperation between Jordan and [...]

Months after five independent power producers 'voluntarily' agreed to cancel their power purchase agreements with the government, the federal cabinet has greenlighted settlement agreements with bagasse-based power plants, a move [...]

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has accused the United States and Israel of orchestrating the toppling of former Syrian President (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/8/syrias-bashar-al-assad-the-president-who-lost-his-homeland) Bashar al-Assad, while also blaming a 'neighbouring' country [...]

As China hosted the 19th Asian Games in September last year, (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/22/china-to-help-reconstruct-war-battered-syria) President Xi Jinping welcomed Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad at a picturesque lakeside guesthouse in the eastern city of [...]

Fighters in Syria who have overthrown former President Bashar al-Assad say they have taken full control of the eastern city of Deir Az Zor, after clashes with Kurdish-led forces who [...]

After the fall of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, Israel has been encroaching on its neighbour's territory. Since al-Assad's dramatic flight to Russia on Sunday, Israel has attacked Syria more than times [...]

Byline: John Hudson; Ellen Nakashima; Dan Lamothe A U.S. group is traveling to Syria this week in search of long-missing journalist Austin Tice, after the surprise ouster of President Bashar [...]

Byline: Loveday Morris; Suzan Haidamous SEDNAYA PRISON, Syria -- The grounds of Syria's most notorious prison are strewn with scraps of paper, offering clues to the horrors meted out within [...]

Byline: Liz Sly Because of Mazen al-Hamada, the world can't say it didn't know. The 47-year-old Syrian activist, who suffered unimaginable torture in the regime's brutal prisons, escaped to Europe [...]

Byline: David Ignatius The Syrian rebels who swept to power in Damascus last weekend received drones and other support from Ukrainian intelligence operatives who sought to undermine Russia and its [...]

Byline: Christina Goldbaum, Raja Abdulrahim and Muhammad Haj Kadour The Assad regime ran a network of torture centers that swallowed up tens of thousands of Syrians. Now that the rebels [...]

Byline: David E. Sanger The overthrow of the Assad government could mean Russia's bases in Syria are closed and Iran's pathway to Hezbollah is cut off. Now Iran, newly vulnerable, [...]

Byline: Ephrat Livni The fighters shared a desire to topple Bashar al-Assad's government, but they don't share much else. Rebel forces have swept through Syria and forced former President Bashar [...]

Byline: Daniel Byman It is hard not to rejoice while watching images of ecstatic Syrians toppling statues from the regime of the deposed dictator Bashar al-Assad and hearing the shouts [...]

Dozens of wounded patients at the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza are at risk of dying due to lack of food and water, Palestinian health authorities have said. The Ministry [...]

THERE are no words in English or Arabic that can describe the feelings I have experienced over the past 72 hours. Even the most optimistic Syrians never dared to think [...]

Byline: Jotam Confino in Tel Aviv and Kieran Kelly ISRAEL said it had destroyed Syria's naval fleet yesterday as troops launched the first raids into the country's territory. The Israel [...]

Byline: Dispatch By Sophia Yan SENIOR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT in Cilvegozu A FEW hundred Syrian migrants gathered at the Turkey-Syria border as dawn broke yesterday, waiting to return home for the [...]

Byline: Michael Stephens THE fall of the regime of Bashar al Assad has opened the door for a remarkable change in Syria. Across the world, news of the tyrannical regime's [...]

Byline: Jotam Confino in Tel Aviv and Kieran Kelly ISRAEL said it had destroyed Syria's naval fleet yesterday as troops launched the first raids into the country's territory. The Israel [...]

Byline: Sophia Yan SENIOR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT in Cilvegozu A FEW hundred Syrian migrants gathered at the Turkey-Syria border as dawn broke yesterday, waiting to return home for the first time [...]

THERE are no words in English or Arabic that can describe the feelings I have experienced over the past 72 hours. Even the most optimistic Syrians never dared to think [...]

Fallout from Syria The downfall of Assad means Putin's regime may be closer to a Soviet-style collapse than we think Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Page [...]

SIR - While I understand Sir Keir Starmer's decision to put Syrian asylum claims on hold, amid fears of jihadists returning to Britain (report, December 10), how can those asylum [...]

Byline: ROBERT TOMBS I have only one qualification - perhaps a slender one - for commenting on the revolution in Syria: I was among the last outsiders able to travel [...]

Byline: Kieran Kelly SYRIA was on the brink of a fresh outbreak of civil war yestErday as Turkishbacked fighters advanced on the Kurdish-majority city of Kobane. Fighters with the Syrian [...]

Secret escape tunnels used by the Assad family have been discovered after their tyrannical regime was overthrown by Syrian rebel forces over the weekend. A video allegedly shows an underground [...]

Israel has carried out a wave of airstrikes across Syria, claiming to have destroyed the country's naval fleet and deployed troops beyond a demilitarised buffer zone between Syria and the [...]

They sought to project an image of benevolent leadership and modernity: the 'ordinary' family that, under the rule of Bashar al-Assad, would reform Syria. They were polished; relatable, apparently -- [...]

It has been 10 years since Morhaf Safi, a young Syrian man, left home to buy a suit for his wedding and never came back. Ten years since his family [...]

The images are reminiscent of the worst of history's crimes against humanity, and the stories of sadism, sexual violence and murder perpetrated in the Sednaya prison in Damascus are almost [...]

The officials, Jamil Hassan and Abdul Salam Mahmoud, ran an infamous prison in Damascus and ''sought to terrify, intimidate and repress any opposition, or perceived opposition, to the regime,'' according [...]

The rebels who seized Damascus are trying to get a new government up and running, even as foreign powers like Israel and Turkey, and armed Syrian groups, fight for power. [...]

Amnesty International described it as a ''human slaughterhouse,'' where, other rights groups say, tens of thousands of people were detained, tortured and killed during the 13-year civil war. As the [...]

Israel capitalized on the power vacuum in Syria to bomb targets across the country, saying it aims to keep weapons away from extremists. As soon as it became clear on [...]

The fighters shared a desire to topple Bashar al-Assad's government, but they don't share much else. Rebel forces have swept through Syria and forced former President Bashar al-Assad out of [...]

How can the United States take advantage of the great but tricky strategic opportunity that the fall of Bashar al-Assad's tyranny in Damascus offers us? Mainly through a combination of [...]

This time, when Bashar al-Assad started to fall, Russia was not there to catch him. Russia largely watched from the sidelines as Syrian rebels swept through the country in less [...]

Byline: Maria Weldali Dec. 10AMMAN The return of Jordanian detainee after spending almost four decades in the notorious Saydnaya prison in Syria, has sparked intense discussions across social media outlets [...]

Byline: By, Lynn Rusk & PA & Alya Zayed A Syrian journalist living in London says he hopes to return to his home city of Aleppo after the fall of [...]

Byline: By, James Street & Alya Zayed Syrian nationals who fled to the UK following the civil war said they planned to return home as they celebrated the fall of [...]

Byline: By, Antony Clements-Thrower The generals of fallen Syrian despot Bashar al Assad are being hunted for their part in 'the torturing of the Syrian people', with a bounty offered [...]

Byline: By, Chris Hughes Syrian rebels are drawing up a grisly hit-list of Bashar al-Assad's vile kill and torture squads as the true extent of the regime's decades-long blood-soaked horror [...]

Byline: By, Dave Burke Syrians in the UK are fearful of their homeland being drawn into a civil war and fear returning, a community leader said. Mazen Gharibah, chief executive [...]

Byline: By, Anders Anglesey A Syrian prisoner shared his seven harrowing words after being freed from deposed dictator Bashar al-Assad's underground torture prisons. Bashar Barhoum, 63, was among the tens [...]

Byline: By, Liam Buckler Ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad's mega 'extermination' prison featured 72 types of brutal torture -including security guards named 'Hitler' who would torment inmates if they refused [...]

Byline: By, Lucy Thornton A former university student who vanished nearly 40 years ago in Syria has been spotted by stunned relatives looking dazed and confused outside a prison. The [...]

Byline: By, Dave Burke Shamima Begum's hopes of returning to the UK have been boosted by the fall of tyrant Bashar al-Assad, her lawyer says. Ms Begum, who grew up [...]

Bangladesh, Dec. 10 -- For over a decade, Bashar al-Assads regime in Syria weathered a brutal civil war, emerging as a seemingly unshakable force despite the fractured state of the [...]

Bangladesh, Dec. 10 -- US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a staunch ally of President-elect Donald Trump, has warned of potential sanctions against Türkiye in response to its military operations targeting [...]