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'Today we are celebrating a new Syria': Mass rallies mark end of Assad regime

Syrians take to the streets after Friday prayers - almost a week after the former president fled as rebels entered Damascus.

Times Union · 1h

Thousands of Syrian celebrate in central Damascus during first Friday prayers since Assad's fall

DAMASCUS (AP) — Thousands of Syrians gathered Friday at Umayyad Square, the largest in Damascus, to celebrate after the first Muslim Friday prayers following the downfall of former President Bashar Assad.

The New York Times · 18h

Syrians Celebrate the Fall of al-Assad, and Rebuild From Tragedy

After five decades under a regime that kept many in fear and poverty, families flooded back from Lebanon, eager to start the slow process of healing.

Syria, Austin Tice

NBC News · 3h

Syria's new leadership blames Assad for anguish of Austin Tice's family as search continues

We hold Bashar al-Assad and his criminal regime accountable for the consequences of Austin’s disappearance and the pain inflicted on his mother — pain, tears and separation," a spokesman told NBC News.

The Washington Post · 16h

Syrian rebels offer to help U.S. search for journalist Austin Tice

U.S. officials say that, for now, it is too dangerous to deploy personnel to look for Austin Tice, who was abducted near Damascus 12 years ago.

MSNBC · 19h

‘Hope’ new Syrian government are motivated to bring Austin Tice home to U.S.: Farkas

After the fall of the Assad regime, NBC News’ Richard Engel spoke to a missing American found in Syria. The whereabouts of U.S. Journalist Austin Tice are still unknown but President Biden says he is alive.

Syria’s rebels face a new battle

Hosted on MSN · 3h

Demoralised and abandoned by allies: why Assad’s army failed to fight in Syria

Khalidi, Ahmed Rasheed and Timour Azhari DAMASCUS/AMMAN/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Twenty-three-year-old Syrian military conscript Farhan al-Khouli was badly paid and demoralized. His army outpost in scrubland near the rebel-held city of Idlib should have had nine soldiers but it just had three,

Wall Street Journal · 1h

U.S. Ally Halts Fight Against Islamic State in Syria as It Battles Rebel Group

Washington’s main ally in Syria warned that a power vacuum in the country was leading to attacks on the group by Turkish-backed rebels, forcing it to halt its yearslong campaign against Islamic State.

The Hill on MSN · 2h

Syria’s rebels face a new battle: Winning over the West

The emerging transitional government in Syria faces a daunting road ahead as it looks to unite a vast coalition of rebel groups and appeal to Western nations concerned about whether the country will suppress minority communities or become a haven for violent extremists.

The Fall of Assad in Syria: How It Happened and What Comes Next

In just over a week, Syrian rebel forces seized much of Syria’s northwest. First, the rebels captured Syria’s largest city, ...

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Inside Assad's luxury palace, a modernist sanctuary from the Syria he tore apart

NBC News gained exclusive access to the marble atrium and wood-lined library of the deposed president's former residence.

‘I Have Never Seen Such a Thing’: Assad’s Fall in Syria Sheds New Light on Human Rights Abuses in Prison System

The fall of Bashar Assad has set free activists and dissidents held in Syria’s notorious prisons for years. The stories ...

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First Friday prayers held in Syria since fall of al-Assad

HTS leader Ahmad al-Sharaa called on Syrians to celebrate the fall of Bashar al-Assad peacefully in the squares, asking them ...

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What is Captagon, the synthetic stimulant that earned billions for the Assad regime in Syria?

Captagon trade under the Assad regime generated billions annually for Syria, according to a 2023 study by the nonprofit ...

France 2427m

'Syria freed!': thousands cheer at famed Damascus mosque

when pro-democracy protesters in Syrian cities would take to the streets after Friday prayers -- but never in Damascus, ...

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Battered corpses show the horrors of life and death under Syria’s Assad

The 35 or so bodies were found in a military hospital in the Syrian capital of Damascus, days after the regime fell. They are ...

Al Jazeera English on MSN45m

Celebration in Damascus as world leaders discuss challenges facing Syria

Tens of thousands of Syrians have converged at the landmark Umayyad Mosque in the capital Damascus to celebrate the removal ...

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Assad's final hours in Syria: Deception, despair and flight

By Samia Nakhoul, Maya Gebeily, Parisa Hafezi and Suleiman Al-Khalidi DUBAI (Reuters) - Bashar al-Assad confided in almost no ...

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