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At Damascus International Airport, the new head of security, a former rebel who had marched across Syria to the capital, arrived with his team. The few maintenance workers who reported to work gathered around Maj Hamza al-Ahmed, eager to learn about the changes ahead. They quickly shared grievances that had been silenced during President Bashar Assad’s rule, which now, surprisingly, …

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Hezbollah is currently in a weakened state and unable to defend former Syrian President Bashar Assad from the rapid insurgency that removed him from power. With Assad’s departure, Hezbollah, a militant group based in Lebanon, finds itself in an even more compromised position. The group suffered significant losses during a 14-month conflict with Israel. The fall of Assad, who had …

Following the ousting of Syrian President Bashar Assad earlier this month, many high-ranking officials and members of his feared intelligence and security services have seemingly vanished. According to activists, some have managed to escape the country, while others have gone into hiding in their hometowns. The Assad family had maintained a strict rule over Syria for more than 50 years, …

The U.S. military has successfully extracted an American citizen, Travis Timmerman, from Syria, where he had been held in the infamous prison system of former President Bashar Assad. Timmerman, 29, had been missing for seven months before being among the thousands released by rebels earlier this week. Timmerman was transported to Jordan via a U.S. military helicopter, according to U.S. …

Syria’s interim government has called on the U.N. Security Council to demand Israel cease its attacks on Syrian territory and withdraw from areas it has entered in the north, violating a 1974 Disengagement Agreement. In letters to the council and U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Syria’s U.N. Ambassador Koussay Aldahhak made these demands on behalf of the interim government. These letters, …

A Syrian war monitor reported that early on Saturday, Israel conducted airstrikes targeting military sites in Damascus and its surrounding areas. These strikes are the latest in a series following the fall of Bashar al-Assad almost a week ago. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, based in Britain, stated that the Israeli airstrikes destroyed a scientific institute and other military …