The astonishing stories of Israelis spying for Iran
Israelis have been arrested on suspicion of spying for Iran, prompting speculation about why they were open to overtures from ...
Syria flashes signs of peril and promise in a week of violence and diplomacy
The peril and promise of Syria under interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa — the former leader of an Islamist insurgent group — ...
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Factories shut, fleeing fighters: How Iran’s sway in Syria collapsed
In an abandoned complex in the Syrian desert city of Palmyra, a piece of paper bearing a motivational slogan in Farsi is pinned to a rough wall. “No beginning is more beautiful than hello, and no wish ...
Syrian Kurds celebrate deal with Damascus as coastal residents remain wary after violence
In northeast Syria, revelers took to the streets after the announcement of a breakthrough deal between the central government in Damascus and local Kurdish-led authorities ...
In Syria, New Fighting Opens Old Wounds
After a period of relative calm in western Syria, the reported attacks raised the specter of continued sectarian conflict in ...
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Syria announces end to ‘military operation’ after mass killings
Analysts have said the latest violence, with nearly 1,000 dead, calls into question the new authorities' ability to rule ...
New Syrian leader Sharaa says killings of Alawites threaten unity, vows justice
Sharaa blamed pro-Assad groups backed by foreigners for triggering the bloodshed but acknowledged that revenge killings had ...
The last good days in Syria before a new nightmare began
When I interviewed Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Damascus on Feb. 27, neither one of us knew ...
Druze seek a place in a changing Syria, navigating pressures from the government and Israel
Members of the small religious sect find themselves caught between two forces that many of them distrust: the new, ...
Syria's Druze seek a place in a changing nation, navigating pressures from the government and Israel
Members of the small religious sect find themselves caught between two forces that many of them distrust: the new, ...
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'Roads full of corpses': terrified Alawites in Syria flee attacks
Rihab Kamel and her family hid terrified in their bathroom in the city of Baniyas as armed men stormed the neighbourhood, ...
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Death toll in violence on Syrian coast rises to more than 1,000, war monitor says
A war monitoring group says the death toll from two days of clashes between security forces and loyalists of ousted Syrian ...