AS NEWS OF the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime and the dictator’s flight spread over the weekend, many Syrians rushed to the public squares to celebrate. In Damascus, women draped in the ...

To applause, percussionist Bahjat Antaki took to the stage with Syria’s national symphony orchestra for the first classical concert at the Damascus Opera House since President Bashar al-Assad ...

Umm Al Qura for Development and Construction, the developer of the Masar Destination redevelopment initiative in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, has announced plans for an initial public offering (IPO ...

Al-Sharaa, whose group led the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad in December, was named Syria’s interim president on Wednesday. Saudi King Salman and MBS were among the first to congratulate him on ...

The former insurgents also threw out Syria’s constitution, adopted under Assad, saying a new charter would be drafted soon. The appointment of Ahmad al-Sharaa, who was once aligned with al-Qaida ...

A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 uprising has been detained inside Syria, according to state news agency SANA.

His pain pours out, like a long cry from Syria’s dungeons, a cry that was silenced during more than half a century of rule by brutal despots, Bashar al-Assad, and his father, Hafez, before him.

where she met President Bashar al-Assad and others, including a Syrian cleric who had previously threatened to unleash suicide bombers in the United States if the American military intervened in ...

Salwan Momika, an Iraqi man who sparked outrage by staging Quran-burning protests in Sweden in 2023, has been shot dead, according to Swedish authorities. A spokesperson for Sweden’s prosecutor ...

Salwan Momika, known for burning the Quran in Sweden, has been shot dead ... Salwan Momika, from the Al-Hamdaniya district of Qaraqosh in northern Iraq's Nineveh province, was raised as an ...

Amir Daftari is a Newsweek reporter based in London, specializing in global affairs with a focus on the Middle East. He joined Newsweek in 2024 from the United Nations and has previously worked at ...