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Syria’s new intel chief vows reforms to end abuses

The new head of Syria's intelligence services announced on Saturday a plan to dissolve the institutions that were so feared under the rule of...

Syria leaders nab official behind death executions

DAMASCUS – Syria’s new authorities have arrested a military justice official who under ousted president Bashar al-Assad issued death sentences for detainees in the...

Syria authorities: Armed groups to disband

DAMASCUS – Syria’s new leaders announced Tuesday that they had reached an agreement with the country’s rebel groups on their dissolution and integration under...

Preserving evidence

This aerial picture shows Monday the villa of Maher al-Assad, the brother of the toppled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, in the town of Yafour...

Palestinian refugees recall Assad’s torture

YARMUK, Syria – School lessons ended in Syria’s biggest Palestinian refugee camp on Oct. 18, 2012, judging by the date still chalked up on...

US diplomats visit Syria to meet Islamist rulers after al-Assad fall

DAMASCUS , Syria – US diplomats are in Syria to meet the country’s new Islamist-led rulers, the State Department said Friday, as outside powers...

1st flight since Assad’s fall takes off

DAMASCUS – The first flight since the ouster of Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad took off on Wednesday from Damascus airport to Aleppo in the...

Syria’s Islamist leader Jolani says rebel factions will be ‘disbanded’

DAMASCUS—Syria’s rebel factions will be “disbanded,” the head of the group that led the ouster of Bashar al-Assad has pledged, as the former president...

Turkish rescuers search infamous Syria jail

A large team of Turkish rescuers began searching Syria's infamous Saydnaya prison near Damascus Monday, trying to check for any hidden underground cells, its...

Crucial meeting

This handout photo provided by Syria’s Interim Government shows UN Special Envoy Geir Pedersen meeting with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, now...

Western, Arab countries, along with Turkey back peaceful Syria

DAMASCUS – The United States said during the weekend it had made contact with Syria’s victorious Hayat Tahrir al-Sham rebels, as Western and Arab...

Rebel leader says Syria too exhausted for conflict with Israel

The leader of the Islamist-led rebels who seized power in Damascus criticized Israel on Saturday for its incursion into southern Syria this week but...

UN envoy warns against Syria collapse at crisis talks

Aqaba, Jordan — A UN envoy on Saturday urged foreign powers to work to avoid a collapse of vital Syrian institutions following the downfall...

As in Syria, US wrecking PH

“There is one view the GCC countries will be kneeling before the US with Syria’s fall” SYRIA’S hopeless predicament as a “forever flashpoint” of geopolitics...
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