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10/21/2025 10:02:42 PM
The UK on Tuesday removed Syria's Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) from its list of banned "terrorist" organisations, after the group ousted Bashar al-Assad last December and took control of government.
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10/15/2025 4:36:10 PM
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa said Wednesday he wanted to "redefine" relations with Moscow as Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted him in Moscow, their first meeting since key Kremlin ally Bashar al-Assad was ousted last year.
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10/15/2025 1:20:45 PM
Syrian interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa will ask Russia to hand over former ruler Bashar al-Assad during his first visit to Moscow on Wednesday, a government official said.
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10/10/2025 2:08:14 PM
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani arrived in Lebanon on Friday, the first senior official to visit from Damascus since the December overthrow of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, Lebanese official media reported.
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10/6/2025 8:09:19 PM
Women and minorities were under-represented in a weekend ballot for members of Syria's transitional parliament, results announced Monday showed, for the first assembly to form since the ouster of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad.
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9/18/2025 3:51:25 PM
Syria expects to finalise security and military agreements with Israel by end-2025, an official said Thursday, in what would be a breakthrough less than a year after Bashar al-Assad's ouster.
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9/13/2025 10:50:27 AM
President Ahmed al-Sharaa said late Friday that Syria was negotiating with Israel to reach a security agreement that would see Israel leave areas it occupied after the December overthrow of Bashar al-Assad.
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9/11/2025 5:14:44 PM
Syria said Thursday its forces dismantled a cell affiliated with Lebanon's Hezbollah group, a key ally of the ousted president Bashar al-Assad, which denied the allegations.
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9/2/2025 1:44:12 PM
More than 200,000 Syrian refugees have returned to their homeland from neighbouring Lebanon this year following the fall of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, a United Nations official told AFP.
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8/25/2025 9:27:30 PM
Syria's central bank governor Abdul Qadir al-Hasriya said Monday that his country would change its currency by removing two zeros and printing new banknotes to replace those issued under ousted ruler Bashar al-Assad.
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8/15/2025 5:16:58 PM
More than 410,000 Syrians who fled to Turkey during the rule of Bashar al-Assad have returned home since he was overthrown in December, the government announced Thursday.
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7/20/2025 7:37:27 PM
Syria's Druze heartland saw a shaky calm on Sunday after a week of violence in Sweida province that killed more than 1,000 people, the latest sectarian bloodshed since Islamists ousted longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad.
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6/21/2025 4:01:07 PM
Syrian authorities arrested Wassim al-Assad, a cousin of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, the interior ministry said Saturday, in one of the most high-profile arrests since the former president's ouster.
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6/19/2025 3:29:03 PM
Over two million Syrians who had fled their homes during their country's war have returned since the ouster of Bashar al-Assad, UN refugee agency chief Filippo Grandi said Thursday, ahead of a visit to Syria.
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6/10/2025 9:16:02 PM
An IMF team visited Syria for the first time since 2009 to take part in efforts to rebuild the economy after years of civil war and the fall of Bashar al-Assad, the lender said Tuesday.
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6/2/2025 10:46:06 PM
The United States approved Syria’s new leadership to incorporate thousands of foreign fighters who fought alongside the Syrian opposition against Bashar al-Assad into its national army, reported Reuters on Monday.
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5/30/2025 2:41:13 PM
The IS group on Thursday claimed its first attack on Syria's new government forces since the fall of longtime Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, two war monitors said.
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5/29/2025 3:04:32 PM
The United States' new envoy for Syria, Thomas Barrack, was in Damascus on Thursday, state media reported, marking the latest in the thawing of relations between the two countries after the fall of Bashar al-Assad.
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5/24/2025 6:44:35 PM
Syria's interior ministry spokesman Noureddine al-Baba said Saturday that around a third of the population had been wanted by the intelligence and security services of longtime ruler Bashar Al-Assad, who was ousted in December.
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5/23/2025 7:33:06 PM
The leaders of Palestinian factions close to former ruler Bashar al-Assad have left Syria under pressure from the new authorities, Palestinian sources said Friday, a key US demand for lifting sanctions.
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