When Shobut thinks of home, she recalls Syria's lemons. The smell is fundamental to her memory of Damascus, she explained.

Syria's interim rulers are trying to form a united national army after the fall of Bashar Assad late last year ...

HTS leader Ahmad al-Sharaa has called for a unified national army and security forces. The interim defense minister, Murhaf ...

HTS leader Ahmad al-Sharaa has called for a unified national army and security forces. The interim defense minister, Murhaf ...

DAMASCUS, SYRIA - “Here’s a good first line for you,” says VOA photojournalist Yan Boechat as we drive up to a former ruling ...

For more than a decade, Mr. al-Assad remained in power, employing vicious means to do so while enjoying an obscene amount of ...

In December, the brutal Assad regime collapsed. The Russian military, which had a significant naval, ground, and air presence in the country, had to pull out its forces as quickly as possible. The ...

The fact of the matter is, though, the Russo-Iranian alliance in the Middle East has been dealt a serious blow with the loss of Assad’s regime in Syria. That is now being made all the more evident by ...

The E.U. is moving to ease sanctions in a bid to sway how HTS leads Syria’s transition and to further curb Russian influence ...

Assad, the Russian-backed dictator of Syria, has led to Russia needing to evacuate its military contingent from the country.

Analysts say the return suggests that Moscow is preparing to evacuate one of its most valuable overseas bases.