the capital of Daraa province, Syria. (Photo by Ammar Safarjalani/Xinhua) This photo taken on Jan. 22, 2025 shows a view of the war-torn Daraa city, the capital of Daraa province, Syria.

Syrian security forces arrested Brigadier General Atef Najib, a cousin of ousted president Bashar al-Assad and former head of ...

For more than a decade, Syria’s multi-front civil war had raged ... while unidentified opposition groups captured Daraa in the south. By Dec. 7, Assad’s regime was beginning to collapse ...

Israeli forces' ongoing encroachment in southern Syria is devastating farmland, destroying vital crops, and crippling local ...

Daraa is the city that sparked protests against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in 2011 and became a major rebel stronghold. Government forces recaptured the city in late 2018 after battles with ...