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          Bashar Al Assad

          Syrians gather in Umayyad Square in Damascus on Saturday to celebrate the 14th anniversary of the uprising against Bashar Al Assad. Sana

          UN calls for peace as Syria commemorates 14 years since uprising

          MENAMarch 15, 2025
          A member of the Syrian security forces on patrol in Latakia, western Syria, scene of some of the worst recent sectarian violence. Reuters

          Dubai’s Syrian residents speak to family back home enduring bloodshed

          UAEMarch 11, 2025
          The National

          Shadi’s take on clashes between Syrian government forces and pro-Assad militias

          CartoonMarch 09, 2025
          A girl holds a flag out of the window of a bus carrying Syrians home to Homs after years of displacement in Aleppo province. AFP

          More than 300,000 refugees return to Syria since Assad’s fall, says UN

          MENAMarch 08, 2025
          An Israeli tank enters the buffer zone between Israel and Syria, near Quneitra, in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, on March 2. EPA

          Israeli military advances are destabilising Syria, Turkey says

          USMarch 07, 2025
          Fighters from security forces in Latakia, Syria, on Friday. EPA

          130 killed as Syrian government forces and pro-Assad militias clash

          MENAMarch 07, 2025
          Ahmad Al Shara was declared Syria's president in January. AFP

          From quiet boy to rebel who toppled dictator: Al Shara's barber speaks

          MENAMarch 02, 2025
          Sheep wander the abandoned town of Jobar on the edge of Damascus. Khaled Yacoub Oweis / The National

          Syria's long road to recovery: Lessons from a devastated Damascus suburb

          MENAMarch 01, 2025
          ISIS extremists in Deir Ezzor province in eastern Syria. AP

          Syria needs a functioning state to take on ISIS

          EditorialFebruary 24, 2025
          The Sayyida Zaynab shrine is widely believed to be the resting place of Zaynab, sister of Imam Husayn, a 7th-century religious figure who is among the most revered in Shiite Islam. Matt Kynaston / The National

          The two lives of Syria's Sayyida Zaynab suburb

          MENAFebruary 19, 2025
          Syria's President Ahmad Al Shara visiting a camp in Idlib sheltering people displaced by the country's civil war, on Saturday. AFP

          Syria has a tight window to ensure inclusive government before chaos takes over

          CommentFebruary 18, 2025
          The National met with relatives of victims who have been killed as violence in the southern town of Sanamayn has increased since the fall of the Assad regime. Matt Kynaston / The National.

          ISIS victims families fear more violence in Syria

          MENAFebruary 13, 2025
          Robert Petit, head of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism. Photo: Screengrab

          ‘Time of the essence’ to preserve evidence of Assad regime crimes

          USFebruary 12, 2025
          Images of a destroyed car said to belong to Muhammad Salah Al Za'bir suggest a Hellfire R9X missile may have been used in the attack. AFP

          US kills senior Al Qaeda-linked militant in Syria

          MENAJanuary 31, 2025
          Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim is received by Syria's President Ahmad Al Shara in Damascus on Thursday. Photo: @QNA / X

          Qatar and Syria discuss reconstruction as Sheikh Tamim visits

          MENAJanuary 30, 2025
          Children wave goodbye to their neighbours as a lorry prepares to leave Rukban camp in eastern Syria. Matt Kynaston for The National.

          Syrians trickle out of Rukban desert camp with memories to forget

          MENAJanuary 30, 2025