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Damascus synagogue tours highlight renewed interest in Syrian Jewish history and diaspora ties

Tours of synagogues and meetings with religious leaders highlight renewed interest in Jewish history and unresolved questions over historic sites, property, and diaspora ties.

A rabbi holds a Torah scroll at the Ifrange Synagogue in the Jewish quarter in Old Damascus on April 29, 2025.
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Syrian officials find remnants of chemical weapons program from Assad regime era - report

Atef Najib, a brigadier general and former head of the Political Security Department in Daraa during Syria's ousted President Bashar al-Assad's rule, who is accused of committing war crimes, attends a trial session at the Palace of Justice, in Damascus, Syria, April 26, 2026.

Syria opens first public trial of former Assad regime official Atef Najib

Hezbollah and Syrian flags are seen fluttering in Fleita, Syria, 2017

In post-Assad era, Hezbollah’s shrinks to cells, smugglers, and cheap rockets - analysis


Palestinian refugees displaced in Syria to finally return home to Yarmouk

Khaled Abdul Majid, the Syria-based leader of the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front, told Al-Monitor that 100,000 people are expected to return to their houses that suffered minimal damage.

Soldiers walk past damaged buildings in Yarmouk Palestinian camp in Damascus

At 20, Bashar Assad's rule is the shame of the Arab world

MIDDLE ISRAEL: Whatever its future, Assad’s presidency has already earned him a place in history, in folklore and in hell.

SYRIA’S PRESIDENT Bashar Assad and his wife Asma cast their votes during parliamentary elections in Damascus, last week.

Assad's uncle, 'butcher of Hama,' hired Israeli lawyers - report

Rifaat, now 82 years old, was convicted of embezzling Syrian state funds by a Paris court on Thursday and sentenced to four years in prison.

Rifaat al-Assad with his brother, former Syrian president Hafez al-Assad

Syria’s dictator Bashar Assad faces renewed challenges at all levels

BEHIND THE LINES: Bashar Assad is not about to fall, But economic deterioration, regime infighting, sanctions and unrest are combining to place his regime under renewed, severe pressure.

SUPPORTERS OF Syria’s President Bashar Assad carry his pictures and Syrian flags during a demonstration in the mainly Druze city of Sweida on Wednesday. Stormy demonstrations against Assad have also taken place there over the past week.

German court opens first Syria torture trial

A former intelligence officer who applied for asylum in Germany six years ago after leaving Syria, is charged with 58 murders in a Damascus prison, where at least 4,000 activists were tortured.

MEMBERS OF the Syrian Democratic Forces attend a funeral in Qamishli, Syria.

Syrian rebels say Moscow deploys ground forces in Idlib campaign

More than two months of Russian-backed operations in and around Idlib province have yielded little or nothing for Russia and its ally President Bashar al Assad.

Russian military jets are seen at Hmeymim air base in Syria

Syrian rebel town buries soccer goalie who became 'singer of the revolution'

People chanted, honked and waved rebel flags on the way to the funeral in the border town of al-Dana, where one of Sarout's brothers is buried.

Fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) stand together in the village of Baghouz, Deir Al Zor province, Syria March 20, 2019. Picture taken March 20, 2019

Rumors seek to drive U.S. and Iran into conflict in eastern Syria

The false reports of airstrikes come in the context of both the US-IRGC tensions and tensions between the SDF and the Syrian regime.

President Bashar al-Assad of Syria

U.S. declares it no longer seeks to topple Assad regime

Announcement represents a reversal of former U.S. president Barack Obama’s aim of ousting the Syrian dictator.

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Idlib waits between massacre and diplomatic solution

The big question is, what will be the future of millions of innocent people who live in Idlib and depend on the diplomatic maneuvers of Moscow, Ankara and Tehran?

A child waits in a bus, evacuating fighters and civilians from the two besieged Shi'ite towns of al-Foua and Kefraya in the mainly rebel-held northwestern province of Idlib, to cross to Turkey from the Syrian-Turkish border crossing of Bab al-Hawa, December 28, 2015. Under the deal, the fighters fro