Since the overthrow of president Bashar al-Assad last December, Syria has been struggling to emerge from the wake of nearly 14 years of civil war, and its banking sector is no exception.

As his enemies closed in on Damascus, Bashar al-Assad, who ruled over Syria with an iron fist for 24 years, used a private jet to spirit away cash, valuables and confidential documents mapping the ...

The Doha summit yielded several important outcomes, including a mutual agreement to reopen borders, resume bilateral trade, and extend an official Arab League summit invitation to Syria.

Sabra Lane: Syria's new government's been grappling with securing the nation after the fall of dictator President Bashar al-Assad last December. For months, the new security forces have been ...

I grew up in this Syria. When I was a child, I remember, my father scolded my brother for telling his friends that Hafez al-Assad had imprisoned my uncles. When his son Bashar al-Assad took over ...

Extend your four-day Eid break by planning annual leave around the public holiday dates Eid Al Adha 2025 is expected to begin on Friday, June 6, giving UAE residents a four-day public holiday.

ISIS is slowly recuperating its strength in the ruins of former President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, and even more fighters could break out of detainment, The New York Times reported Monday.

LAMU, Kenya—Al Qaeda militants are disrupting one of Africa’s most ambitious infrastructure projects, forestalling Kenya’s plans for establishing a new regional trade hub on the Indian Ocean.

These protests are not targeting Syria’s new interim leadership. Significantly, they follow the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in December 2024, which ended 61 years of Ba’ath Party rule — ...

They practiced horrific forms of repression, and silenced dissent. Among such rulers were Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi , Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, and most recently, Bashar al-Assad. These rulers ...

Senior Writer, Foreign Policy & Deputy Editor, National Security and Foreign Policy The overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may have marked a major blow to the Iran-aligned Axis of ...

It had to be rejigged following the fall of al-Assad to reflect the new reality for refugees, he says. “Syrian refugees are not welcome in Europe anymore. They’ve stopped doing the paperwork ...