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SUPPORTERS OF Hamas and Islamic Jihad take part in a rally last year in the southern Gaza Strip to celebrate a deadly shooting attack in Tel Aviv.

Syrian forces detain two ‘Palestinian leaders in Damascus’

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

Assad poster burns in Syria

Operation Assad: The air mission to smuggle the Syrian despot's valuables

IDF Paratrooper Brigade operates in southern Syria, April 5, 2025.

IDF raids Syrian outpost, dismantles Assad-era military supplies

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

ACTIVISTS PLACE a banner reading ‘For Democracy in Syria, defend Rojava’ on top of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, December 16, 2024. The civil institutions in northeastern Syria encompass the semi-autonomous Rojava region and include oil and gas fields, border crossings, and airports, the writer says.

How can there be a brighter future for Syria’s Kurds?

By NEVILLE TELLER

Amer Nahas, the supervisor of the German embassy building in Damascus for 26 years, handing the key to the Annalena Baerbock

Syria's President welcomes German FM

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

Yonah Jeremy Bob embeds with IDF on Syrian side of Golan Heights, March 11, 2025.

Katz: Israeli military presence on Syrian Hermon protects Israel from regional threats

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

IDF troops operate within Syria in early March.

Israeli troops locate, dismantle weapons while operating within Syria amid sectoral violence

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa holds a speech at the National Dialogue Conference on February 25, 2025 in Damascus, Syria

Syria calls for Israel's withdrawal from its lands, national dialog closing statement says

By REUTERS , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammed al-Julani, in Damascus on December 23, 2024.

Syria’s Julani names himself transitional president, dissolves Baath institutions

By DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD , REUTERS , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Children attend a class in a primary school at refugee camp in Idlib, a northwestern Syrian city where Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) had maintained an administration at the time when Syria's civil war front lines were frozen, Syria, December 17, 2024.

Nearly 30% of Syrians want to go home, up from almost zero, UN refugee chief says

By REUTERS

Head of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and Syria's de facto leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani, sits next to Murhaf Abu Qasra, who according to an official source has been appointed as Defense Minister in Syria's interim government, in Damascus, Syria.

Syria’s defense minister rejects SDF proposal for autonomous Kurdish military bloc

By THE MEDIA LINE STAFF

Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati meet with Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus, Syria, January 11, 2025.

Lebanon to work with Syria to strengthen borders

By REUTERS

IDF soldiers seen as part of operations targeting Syrian military capabilities, in northern Israel, January 9, 2025

IDF continues targeting Syrian military capabilities in fresh attacks

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

Top rebel commander Abu Mohammed al-Julani speaks to a crowd at Ummayad Mosque in Damascus, after Syrian rebels announced that they have ousted President Bashar al-Assad, Syria December 8, 2024.

Syria's Julani meets with Ukraine's foreign minister, SANA says

By REUTERS

SPENT BULLET CARTRIDGES lie on the ground after rebels seized Damascus and ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad this week.

Syrian forces suffer 14 casualties in ambush as unrest reaches Assad’s loyalist regions

By REUTERS , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Head of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and Syria's de facto leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani, sits next to Murhaf Abu Qasra, who according to an official source has been appointed as Defense Minister in Syria's interim government, in Damascus, Syria.

Syrian interim government names rebel commander as defense minister

By THE MEDIA LINE STAFF

A rebel led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham stands in the back of a vehicle in al-Rashideen, Aleppo province, Syria November 29, 2024.

Avoiding past mistakes: Seven key concerns about the Islamist approach in Syria

By MOHAMED SAAD KHIRALLA

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and Abu Mohammed al-Jolani. (Illustrative)

‘Jewlani the Jew’: Conspiracies on HTS leader run rampant on social media