Observers said more than 100,000 died in prisons and detention centres during the civil war. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A coalition of Syrian rebels say they have toppled the government of President Bashar al-Assad and captured the Syrian ...

Until the fall of the al-Assad regime, the word “dollar” was forbidden in public. Instead, people used anything green – my ...

The Syrian government fell early Sunday in a stunning end to the 50-year rule of ... a Syrian airplane took off from Damascus airport around the time the capital was reported to have been taken ...

War-weary Palestinians in Gaza who lost their homes and loved ones in 2024 saw little hope that 2025 would bring an end to ...

On the road to Damascus, New York Times reporters saw evidence of lawlessness ... and the wider world struggled to process the stunning end to the Assads’ decades-long reign, opposition ...

People set aside divisions and anxiety about the future to mark a once-in-a-lifetime moment of renewal.

The offensive by HTS comes during a sensitive time for Syria and the region ... says the Observatory. Rebels enter Damascus and declare the end of Mr Assad’s rule, sending residents streaming ...

local time, and Assad’s army fled from the streets, witnesses said. Assad, who has ruled the country with an iron fist for 24 years, boarded a plane and left Damascus for parts unknown ...

"I can't believe I'm living this moment," tearful Damascus resident ... waiting a long time for this day," said Batha, as Islamist-led rebels and a war monitor declared the end of decades of ...