La Croix11d
In Syria, prominent Sunni religious leaders return from exile
Assad’s fall in December, prominent Sunni religious leaders returned from exile to counter the dominant Salafist influence, ...
Alawites wary as a post-Assad Syria takes shape
Once Syria's most influential minority, Alawites struggle to move on from their association with a hated dictator.
Syria’s Kurdish hope: A blueprint for power-sharing emerges from chaos
SDC maps path to decentralized future as Assad's fall creates delicate balance between Turkish threats and Islamist forces ...
Rebel Leader Who Overthrew al-Assad Is Declared Syria’s President
The new leadership of the country said the rebel coalition leader, Ahmed al-Shara, would serve as president during a ...
Arutz Sheva8d
A century of chaos in Syria
From this brief mandate, Syria inherited a parliamentary system modeled after France’s, but political parties were little ...
spectator.com.au3d
Syria feels close to a zone of anarchy
Travelling from Syria’s Highway 42, which runs from Tabqa to the city of Homs, you can see the corpse of Bashar al-Assad’s ...
Foreign Affairs3d
Syria’s Post-Authoritarian Trap
Assad’s final ouster appeared abrupt, it had its roots in Syria’s 2011 antigovernment protests, and Syrians will now face ...
Syria's al-Hol camp readies first return of Syrian detainees, director says
Kurdish-led authorities who run a sprawling camp for Islamic State-linked prisoners in northeast Syria are preparing the ...
Syria’s Alawites, Sect of the Assads, Fear for Their Future
They say disparate violent incidents in the past two months—including alleged extrajudicial killings and the destruction of a ...