Syria’s Civil Defense has uncovered over two dozen charred bodies in two basements in rural Damascus, adding to the growing tally of mass graves discovered since the ousting of Bashar Assad

Senior Russian officials arrived in Damascus on Tuesday for their first meetings with Syria's new leadership under Hayat Tahrir Al Sham (HTS), which led the overthrow of Moscow's main Middle East ally,

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Mazloum Abdi, chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), on Tuesday met with the Kurdish National Council (ENKS/KNC) for the second time in a month. Both sides agreed to send a joint committee to Damascus to discuss the future of Kurds in new Syria,

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov is set to meet Syria's new rulers this week in Damascus, two Syrian sources said on Tuesday, in the first visit by Russian officials since Moscow's ally President Bashar al-Assad was toppled.

It already appears evident that the days of Russia serving as its leading arms supplier have come to an ignominious end.

Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus bookstores, no longer traded in secret after iron-fisted ruler Bashar al-Assad's ouster."If I had asked about a (certain) book just two months ago,

Assad’s final ouster appeared abrupt, it had its roots in Syria’s 2011 antigovernment protests, and Syrians will now face many of the same problems that beset other Arab countries after their Arab Spring revolutions.

The United Nations refugee chief says some 200,000 refugees have returned to Syria from neighboring countries since the government of Bashar Assad was overthrown last month.

DAMASCUS /Syria/, January 29. /TASS/. The question of preserving Russian military bases in Syria requires further consultations, and the sides have agreed to continue them, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov has told reporters.

Jon Lee Anderson reports from Damascus. Plus: the insidiousness of the entrepreneurial economy; fear and hope on the subway; and the roots of Trump’s aggressive nationalism.

Syria’s Civil Defense has uncovered over two dozen charred bodies in two basements in rural Damascus, adding to the growing tally of mass graves discovered since the ousting of Bashar Assad.