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A year ago, the war that President Bashar al-Assad seemed to have won was turned upside down. A rebel force had broken out of Idlib, a Syrian province on the border with Turkey, and was storming ...

Fighting has returned to northeast Syria. Government forces are again pushing to take control of areas still held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). A temporary truce is now in place, but after ...

What is happening in Syria? When the civil war ended in Syria in 2024, the country entered into a period of transition and recovery. Nearly a million former refugees have returned to Syria, and 1.9 ...

Syrian security officers at their graduation ceremony in Damascus in February.Credit...David Guttenfelder/The New York Times Supported by By Raja Abdulrahim Reporting from Aleppo, Idlib and Damascus, ...

But for all the new Syria's problems, it feels much lighter without the crushing, cruel weight of the Assads. Syria is still in ruins. In cities and villages, many people are living in skeletal ...