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Syria Arrests Assad Relative Tied to $2 Billion Captagon Empire

[DAMASCUS] Syrian authorities on Thursday arrested Namir Badi’ Assad, the brother of Wassim Assad, who was recently detained ...

Operation Move Earth: How Ousted Syrian Leader Assad Moved Mass Grave To Secret Location

The Assad government carried out a two-year clandestine operation to truck thousands of bodies from one of Syria's largest known mass graves to a secret location more than an hour away in the remote ...

The Vanishing Act: How Assad’s Top Henchmen Fled Syria, and Justice

As Syria’s regime collapsed, the world’s eyes were on Bashar al-Assad’s getaway flight. Behind him, officials key to his ...

Syria's Sharaa meets Putin in Moscow for first time since fall of Assad

Russia wants continued access to its Tartous naval port and Hmeimim military airbase on Syria's Mediterranean coast. Sharaa ...

Assad-era conspiracy to hide thousands of dead turned Syria’s remote desert into a mass grave

For two years, Syria’s Assad government secretly trucked thousands of bodies from an exposed mass grave to the desert, trying ...

Syria’s interim president visits Putin in Moscow for first meeting since fall of Assad regime

Sharaa, travelled to Moscow for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, in the first face-to-face ...
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Syria’s al-Sharaa moves to reset ties with Moscow after Assad’s fall

Sharaa, Syria’s new president, has told Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, that he wants to “restore and redefine” ...

Syrian president to use Putin talks to request extradition of deposed president Assad, sources say

The Assads now live discreetly in Moscow, according to Russian media. Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa will use talks with ...

'Operation Move Earth': How ousted Syrian leader Assad relocated a mass grave; what was the purpose?

Syrian government secretly moved thousands of bodies from a mass grave in Qutayfah to a hidden desert location between 2019 ...

Months after fall of Assad, families of Syria's missing still seeking justice

Some are only now coming forward with accounts of loved ones who disappeared during the civil war and are presumed dead.

Syria holds first elections since Assad’s ouster, marking a cautious step in political transition

Syria has held its first parliamentary elections since Bashar Assad was ousted nearly a year ago. The People's Assembly will ...

Syria's foreign minister visits Lebanon as both nations seek to rebuild ties after Assad's ouster

Syria’s foreign minister has arrived in Lebanon’s capital in what observers say could mark a breakthrough in relations ...