US revokes foreign terrorist designation for Syria’s Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham
The group, also know as Al-Nusrah Front, took part in offensive that ousted Bashar al-Assad
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‘Everyone is digging for gold now’: Desperate Syrians resort to scouring ancient sites
Security vacuum after Assad downfall has led to plundering for Greek, Roman and Byzantine artefacts
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Islamic State suicide bombing in Damascus church kills 22 people
Sunday night attck was first major IS operation and suicide bombing in Syria since toppling of former president Bashar al-Assad in December
Demining in Syria: ‘People are desperate to go back to their houses... In their mind the main threat is gone’
There have been more than 900 mine-related injuries or fatalities in Syria since the fall of the Assad regime
Children play among bones as Syria faces ‘enormous challenge’ of what to do about mass graves
Six months after the fall of Syria’s Assad regime, mass burial sites of the war’s victims are still not cordoned off or protected
Iran fires missiles at Israel in response to attacks
Israel warns strikes are just start of its campaign, while Donald Trump says Iran could halt attacks by ending its nuclear programme
Exhibitions open in Damascus remembering suffering and sacrifice under Syrian regime
Hundreds attend the first gallery show openings since fall of Bashar al-Assad, honouring former detainees and disappeared people
‘KatKot’ chocolate and ‘Ugarit Cola’: What life in Syria was like under US sanctions
It felt like the more ways we learned to survive the sanctions regime, the more creative ways it found to punish us
US pushes former foes to lead Syria towards ‘normalisation’ after decades of enmity
Sanctions to be lifted as Washington urges Damascus to cut ties with Palestinian militants and to protect minorities
Celebrations in Damascus after Donald Trump’s sudden announcement of end to sanctions on Syria
Economic embargoes to be lifted as country struggles to rebuild after 13 years of war
Israeli strikes on Syria hit area near presidential palace in Damascus
Escalation indicates Israel’s preparedness to ramp up military action in name of Syria’s Druze minority
The ghosts of Khaldiyeh, a Homs neighbourhood devastated by Syria’s war
Khaldiyeh, in Syria’s third-largest city, is a former opposition stronghold once under siege during the country’s long war
In Homs, efforts to rebuild but trauma haunts the streets
Syria’s new government is walking a tightrope, trying to state-build in a devastated country with a diverse and deeply divided society
‘They destroyed this moment of joy’: On the frontlines of the Israeli incursion into Syria
Days after the fall of the Assad regime, Israeli forces entered southern Syria, where many locals now want protection from the UN
‘We try to make a new future now. You can speak, you can go out’
Public spaces, some of them scarred by Syria’s conflict, host civilian and community-organised events
Hope for Syria as government and Kurds sign deal to merge forces
Kurdish community to get citizenship and language rights denied under Assad regime
Syria faces demands for accountability after civilian killings
Islamist-led government says it has completed military operation against insurgency by Bashar al-Assad loyalists
Syria’s Sharaa pleas for communal peace as clashes continue
More than 1,000 people have been killed in two days of fighting in Alawite region, war monitor says
Almost 200 die in Syria as loyalists of deposed Assad regime clash with government forces
Violence deals blow to interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa’s rule of shattered country
Egypt fears Syria’s revolutionary fervour could be contagious
After years of economic misery, discontent with the regime of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi could explode into protest in Egypt
Searching for Syria’s disappeared: ‘We can’t always give answers, but we can give part of the story'
Amer Matar, who fled Syria in 2011, runs an online archive that helps people to search for information about their loved ones
‘Assad was no friend of the Palestinians’: gravediggers of a once-thriving suburb of Damascus devastated in Syrian war
The residents of Yarmouk ‘need help rebuilding’ the enclave of the Palestinian diaspora, which was reduced to rubble by Syrian and Russian air forces
Israel in Syria: ‘We’re the only part of the country that didn’t celebrate the fall of Assad’
Binyamin Netanyahu’s order for Israeli troops to ‘take over’ a buffer zone with Syria upended decades of relative calm along the de-facto border between the two countries
Diplomats tread the road to Damascus as Syria’s new regime seeks international support
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has held talks with European and US officials, as well regional government ministers
Syrians accuse rulers of imposing Islamist agenda in new curriculum
Critics fear rebel-backed government is pushing religious vision on to what has long been a secular country
The Syrian neighbourhood at the heart of Assad’s killing machine
Residents returning to Tadamon, once a rebel stronghold near Damascus, find mass graves and expropriated homes
One of the casualties of 12 months of war in the Middle East was the rule of international law
In the space of a single year, the Islamic Republic of Iran effectively lost three of the key elements in its so-called axis of resistance
Syria: 14 security personnel killed in attempted arrest of Sednaya prison officer
Clash broke out in Tartous province, a stronghold of the ousted president Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite minority
Asma al-Assad, wife of ousted Syrian leader, reportedly severely ill with leukaemia
Assad was diagnosed with acute form of disease in May and has been given 50/50 chance of survival
After the fall of Assad, a family reunites
The future is far from certain, but over juice and cakes one group of relatives celebrates finally being in the same room together
Western indifference to Israel’s thirst for war defines a grotesque year of hypocrisy
As China and Russia weigh up their options in anticipation of Donald Trump’s second presidency, horrified countries in the Global South see Gaza as an emblem of US and European double standards
Top US officials meet new Syrian rulers
US diplomats discuss transition principles with representatives of Syria’s new de facto rulers led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham
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