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Iran envisioned a U.S.-style Marshall Plan to reconstruct Syria following the civil war. It invested billions to establish influence there.

As Syria experiences significant changes after the fall of the Assad regime, the reappearance of sanctioned individuals and the lack of substantial legal action against them may indicate entrenched corruption within the existing system.

Reza Pahlavi, the son of the last shah, tells that the West must establish a “strike fund” to support civil resistance and incapacitate the government.

Russia has refused to extradite former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, who fled to Moscow following his ouster

A 16-year-old boy who died after being stabbed in the neck has been identified as a Syrian refugee who was starting a new life in the UK after being injured in a bombing.

Four suspected human smugglers arrested in Libya in joint UK-Libya operation targeting Mediterranean trafficking routes.

One suspect, Mehdi Nemmouche, is serving a life sentence for a 2014 attack on a Jewish museum in Brussels.

Two months after the fall of Assad’s regime, Whitehall’s decision to pause asylum applications from Syrians has left more than 6,600 cases stuck on hold in the UK.

In an interview, Murhaf Abu Qasra, a onetime leader in Syria’s insurgency, discussed moves by authorities in Damascus to build new alliances.

A potential Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities is back on the agenda after the weakening of several key Iranian proxies — Hezbollah, Hamas, and the fallen Syrian regime, writes military expert David Gendelman.

Austin Tice, a former U.S. Marine turned journalist, vanished in 2012 while covering Syria’s civil war.

Appointment of former leader of group that led operation to topple Assad comes amid other political changes.

Prediction by ex M16 counter-terror director comes as security paused around two main detention facilities.

Authorities have arrested dozens of people accused of taking advantage of the chaos in Syria to settle old scores.

Aleksandr Lukashenko has supported and continues to support Bashar al-Assad, the former president of Syria.

The Foreign Secretary has travelled to Saudi Arabia for talks on the future of Syria after the collapse of the Assad regime.

As Jihadi bride Shamima Begum continues to fight to return to the UK, we look at...

The current Minister of Justice of Syria, Shadi Al-Waisi, appears in the video of the execution...

Elite Air Force unit breached underground facility 200 kilometers from Israel, laid explosives and escaped unscathed after 2.5 hours, in one of the most complex operations to date.

Long-serving dictator Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea receives “Lifetime Non-Achievement Award”

The new Syrian authorities have arrested military judge Mohammed Kanjo Hassan, who issued death sentences to prisoners of the Sednaya prison complex.

Recently deposed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was popular among the Western ultra-right for his anti-Semitic views, Holocaust denial, and ruthless persecution of his country’s Muslim population.

In May, Syria’s presidency announced that the then-first lady of the Middle Eastern country had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia - an aggressive cancer of the bone marrow and the blood.

Ministers have been urged not to let the British wife of deposed Syrian despot Bashar Al-Assad come back to the UK amid reports she has become unhappy with life in Russia.