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Premieres Tuesday, July 1, 2025 at 10:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Syria's uncertain future under Jihadist-turned-statesman Ahmad al-Sharaa. After the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Correspondent ...
Amid chaos and conflict in the Middle East, a new FRONTLINE documentary investigates high-stakes questions about the future of a country at the center of the region: Syria. The country shares ...
With the Assad regime officially overthrown, Syria enters a new and uncertain phase. This video explores the political vacuum left behind, the groups vying for control, and the international ...
After one of the most brutal wars of this century, a new Syria is rising from the disastrous legacy of the toppled dictator Bashar al-Assad. His photos have been torn from the walls, as people ...
The Syria I found again In an Assad torture prison, I saw my father’s poem still on the wall.
The European Union (EU) on Wednesday announced that it has lifted economic sanctions on Syria after the toppling of the repressive Assad regime, in an effort to revive the country’s economy. The EU’s ...
BEIRUT (AP) — Sunni regional powerhouses Turkey and Saudi Arabia have had a complicated and often contentious relationship over the years. But their ties warmed significantly after Bashar Assad ...
Their interests aligned in a post-Assad Syria, so the two shifted “from rivalry to pragmatic cooperation,” Alghannam said. Ankara and Riyadh shared concerns about Iran’s outsized influence ...
Turkey and Saudi Arabia are two Sunni powerhouses that have had a complicated and often contentious relationship over the years.
How did Assad’s fall improve relations? Analysts say Assad’s fall and the new reality in Syria intensified a thaw that was already underway between the two major U.S. allies.
It was no surprise then that the first trips abroad that Syria's insurgent-leader-turned-President Ahmad al-Sharaa made were to the kingdom's capital of Riyadh and Ankara, Turkey's capital.