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Syrian Civil War

The Syrian Civil War started back in the first quarter of 2011. Nationwide protests arose against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. His forces retaliated by violently cracking down against those who protested. It soon turned into a military conflict with the formation of the Free Syrian Army. By 2013, Hezbollah had entered the fray in support of the Free Syrian Army. The conflict has been raging for over four years now and no end is in sight.

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PEOPLE GATHER during a celebration called by HTS at Umayyad Square in Damascus in December.

Syrian ambassador to Moscow requests asylum in Russia

President Ahmed al-Shara'a speaks during the formation of the new Syrian government. March 29, 2025.

What are the priorities of Syria's new government?

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa attends a meeting with former rebel faction chiefs, in Damascus, Syria, December 24, 2024

Syrian leader to visit Jordan on Wednesday, say Jordanian sources

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

THEN-US president Barack Obama delivers a statement as then-secretary of state John Kerry looks on, in 2016.

How Barack Obama's peaceful ideology led to failed foreign policy

By GREGORY LYAKHOV

PEOPLE CELEBRATE the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad, in Sednaya, Syria, this week. The spectacular collapse of the Assad regime has introduced both uncertainty and opportunity, the writer notes.

In Syria’s Sednaya prison, waiting for loved ones: Many missing, many dead

By Rizik Alabi/The Media Line

A drone view shows the site of a mass grave from the rule of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, according to residents, after the ousting of al-Assad, in Al Qutayfah, Syria, December 17, 2024.

At least 100,000 bodies in Syrian mass grave, US advocacy group head says

By REUTERS

A rebel fighter stands atop of a military vehicle as he carries a Hayat Tahrir al-Sham flag in Saraqeb town in northwestern Idlib province, Syria December 1, 2024.

How did the Syrian rebels bring down Assad in just 11 days?

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad visit the Hmeymim air base in Latakia Province, Syria December 11, 2017.

Russia urged Assad to leave after determining he'd lost the war

By CORINNE BAUM

Smoke rises, after Syrian rebels announced that they have ousted Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria, December 8, 2024.

Syrian turmoil resurfaces: Turkey rises, Iran threatens, and regional alliances shift

By Dr. Eric R. Mandel

UN Sec.-Gen. Antonio Guterres speaks at a Security Council meeting earlier this year. The UN, which was created in part as a response to the horrors of World War II, has singled out Israel in a way that resembles the legal discrimination that led to the persecution of Jews in the 1930s and 1940s.

UN chief says future of Syria up to Syrians, UN will help

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF , REUTERS

Hayvi Bouzo and Anas Al-Marfou'. (illustration).

Syrians to 'Post': 'Syrian people are experiencing profound joy'

Top rebel commander Abu Mohammed al-Golani greets people at Ummayad Mosque in Damascus, after Syrian rebels announced that they have ousted President Bashar al-Assad, Syria December 8, 2024.

Bewildered, elated prisoners pour out as Assad's jails flung open

By REUTERS

Smoke rises, after Syrian rebels announced that they have ousted Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria, December 8, 2024.

Assad’s fall and Syria’s chaos: Israel’s high-stakes moment in a ‘new Middle East’ - analysis

Israeli soldiers take a position in the Golan Heights, near the Israeli border with Syria, northern Israel, December 8, 2024.

IDF: Assad's fall marks end of Iran's axis of resistance, new challenges ahead in Syria

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks after Syrian rebels announced that they have ousted Syria's Bashar al-Assad, at the White House, in Washington, U.S., December 8, 2024.

'This is just a fundamental change in the equation of the entire Middle East,' Biden officials says

By HANNAH SARISOHN

(L-R): Bashar al-Assad, Qatar's Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan (illustrative)

As Assad falls and Iran weakens, Qatar gains influence across Middle East

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

IDF troops operate in the Syrian area of Mount Hermon. December 8, 2024.

IDF takes over Syrian Hermon, strikes Syrian chemical weapons factory

By YONAH JEREMY BOB , JERUSALEM POST STAFF