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Syria forms committee to investigate Sweida violence
Syria has pledged to investigate clashes in the southern province of Sweida which killed hundreds of people last month -the ...
Syria to hold first parliamentary elections since Assad's fall in September
Syria plans to hold parliamentary elections in September, according to the head of the election organizing body ...
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Lebanon UNHCR chief hopes at least 200,000 Syrian refugees return under new plan
The UN refugee agency's representative in Lebanon said Thursday he hopes that at least 200,000 Syrian refugees return from Lebanon by the end of the year under a new government-backed return ...
France's top court rules arrest warrant for ex-Syrian leader Assad is invalid
France's highest court ruled on Friday that an arrest warrant for former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad was invalid as it was ...
Syrian Sectarian Strife Jeopardizes Post-Assad Transition
Assad’s fall, deadly sectarian clashes in southwestern Syria have exposed one of the biggest challenges to the country’s ...
France's highest court upholds some of former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad's legal protections
The Cour de Cassation upheld Assad’s head-of-state immunity, but added that since he is no longer in office, “new arrest ...
French court to decide if Assad can be stripped of immunity and tried for Syrian chemical attacks
France's highest court is ruling on whether it can strip Bashar al-Assad, the former Syrian leader now in exile in Russia, of ...
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Assad makes first public statement after Syria ouster. What happens ...
Syria is the world's largest supplier of Captagon, a synthetic stimulant that is a popular drug in the Middle East. Analysts estimate the Assad regime netted billions each year from its trade.
Syria to hold first parliamentary elections since the fall of al-Assad
The announcement comes amid mounting unrest, particularly after deadly clashes erupted in Suwayda province between Bedouin ...
Southern Syria exploded into the worst violence of post-Assad era. What that means for the region's future
Seven months of relative calm in Syria came to a bloody end last week, when what began as local skirmishes escalated into the ...