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Lebanon hands Assad-era general to Syria in first such transfer since Assad’s fall

The ministry said Issa was wanted under an arrest warrant on charges including intentional homicide, facilitating a felony, killing more than two people, and more.

Assad-era general, Adel Issa, was detained in Lebanon and transferred to Syria.
Taken before his appointment as Mossad Chief, Roman Gofman attends a ceremony marking the lighting of the first Hanukkah candle of the 7th Armored Brigade at the National Library in Jerusalem, on December 14, 2025.

Mossad director, Syria foreign minister discussed Turkish military presence before strikes

Daily life is gradually returning to parts of Homs as Syria begins to emerge from years of war, with easing US restrictions raising hopes for renewed investment and economic recovery.PremiumPremium

'People are now happy': Syria emerges from isolation on the road to recovery

Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa receives UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the People's Palace in Damascus, July 25, 2026

Golan Heights 'are Syrian territory,' UN chief Guterres stresses during Damascus visit


Syria opens trial against suspects in mass killing of Alawite minorities, first since Assad's fall

The bloodshed marked one of the worst eruptions of violence since Sunni Islamist rebels led by Sharaa toppled Assad, a member of the Alawite minority, in December 2024.

Abu Ali al-Khair, a resident of Jableh, inspects his damaged house, as Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa grapples with the fallout from reported mass killings of Alawite minority members, in Jableh, Syria March 12, 2025.

Ex-Syrian official says he passed order for US journalist Austin Tice's execution

While former Assad advisor Bassam al-Hassan said he ordered the execution of American journalist Austin Tice, many remain skeptical about whether Tice was actually killed.

 Marc and Debra Tice, parents of US journalist Austin Tice, talk during a news conference in Beirut, Lebanon December 4, 2018.

French court issues arrest warrant for former Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad

The warrants are over the assassination of two journalists during the bombardments of the rebel-held city of Homs in 2012.

 Portrait image of Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria

Syria's transitional justice commission set to launch, vows accountability for Assad-era crimes

“The protection of human rights must be institutionalized, violations must be stopped, and the rule of law must be restored," commission head Abdul Latif said.

A torn poster showing former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad meeting with Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in the Sayyida Zaynab district in Damascus, Syria, December 14, 2024

IDF 'Alpine' Unit raids Syrian Assad-era command posts to prevent weapons smuggling

Reservists of the IDF's 810th Brigade have uncovered command posts, over three tons of ammunition leftover from Assad's regime on the Syrian side of Mount Hermon.

Weapons located and confiscated in the area

Damascus faces difficult choices in southern Syria in light of Israeli airstrikes - analysis

Tensions flare as rockets from Syria prompt Israeli airstrikes, despite Syria’s new government seeking stability and rejecting hostile acts.

 Members of Syrian security forces stand guard at a damaged site, after Israel carried out an air strike on the Syrian capital Damascus on Thursday, as reported by Syria's state news agency, in Damascus, Syria March 13, 2025

We need to give Syria a chance - opinion

Assad is gone. Syria is in flux. For Israel, this is a moment not for nostalgia, but for strategic influence and calibrated engagement.

David Zaikin.

Why Palestinian Islamic Jihad slammed Israel’s Syria strike - analysis

“The Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement considered Israel’s aggression against Syria to be an expression of the regime's expansionist plans,” says IRNA.

 SUPPORTERS OF Hamas and Islamic Jihad take part in a rally last year in the southern Gaza Strip to celebrate a deadly shooting attack in Tel Aviv.

Sixteen ISIS suspects found in sprawling detainee camp in Syria

This is a result of their surrender in 2019 when they surrendered to the US-backed SDF and ended up in prisons.

 People walk at the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp, which holds relatives of suspected Islamic State (IS) group fighters in the northeastern Hasakeh governorate, on April 18, 2025.

Hezbollah won’t be disarmed easily despite Israel's progress - analysis

The comments by the Hezbollah leader reflect the challenge ahead: While Hezbollah is weaker than it was two years ago, it is still not gone.

 A vehicle carries the coffin of a commander from Iraq's Kataib Hezbollah armed group who was killed in what they called a "Zionist attack" in the Syrian capital Damascus on Friday, during a funeral in Baghdad, Iraq September 22, 2024