Syria has got rid of Bashar al-Assad, but not sectarian tensions
Under Mr Assad Syria sank from middle-income status to abject poverty. Women saw branches off trees for heating. Children scavenge in dumpsters for food. Men pull copper wire from buildings and telecoms cables to sell. The government is broke and banks are running out of cash. “The economy is tanking,” says one of Mr Sharaa’s advisers.
The reported fighting in the capital, Damascus, and the second city of Aleppo marked the first such clashes there since the fall of the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
Violence is flaring across parts of western Syria, as forces of the self-styled Syrian transitional government have clashed with Alawite militias and ...
DOZENS of people have been killed after soldiers loyal to ousted tyrant Bashar al-Assad launched a surprise ambush on the ...
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As Syria’s Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa struggles to ensure stability in the country, militant groups supporting ousted ...
Suhail al-Hassan, considered a brutal commander during Assad’s government and suspected of being behind this rebellion, has ...
Syria’s interim president has told worshippers at a mosque in Damascus “national unity and civil peace” must be maintained, as the death toll reportedly exceeds 1,000.
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More than 600 dead after revenge killings convulse northern Syrian hometown of ousted Bashar al-AssadThe death toll from two days of clashes between security forces and loyalists of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has risen to more than 600, a war monitoring group said yesterday, making it ...
The discussions between Moscow and Damascus have revolved primarily around the future of Russia’s military presence in Syria, ...
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