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The Guardian view on a new Syria: nurturing fragile hope amid the rubble | Editorial

Sanctions relief thanks to Donald Trump’s unexpected embrace of the new president gives a shattered country the chance to rebuild

The startled joy that greeted Bashar al-Assad’s fall less than six mon…

9 days ago

Trump envoy praises new Syrian president for ‘counter-ISIS measures’

Thomas Barrack also stresses temporary lifting of sanctions for first time since 1979 after meeting with Ahmed al-Sharaa

Donald Trump’s old friend Thomas Barrack, now serving as the US ambassador to T…

13 days ago

18 days ago

‘Now my kids have a future’: Syrians dare to dream again after years as a pariah state

Promise to lift US sanctions brings closer the opportunity for fresh start that began with toppling of Bashar al-Assad

In 2006, Ahmed al-Sharaa was sitting in a US prison in Iraq, then an al-Qaida fig…

Why have Israeli attacks on Syria surged since the fall of Assad? – video explainer

Just two days after the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria last December, Israel launched a sweeping offensive, seizing the Golan Heights and carrying out hundreds of airstrikes across the cou…

20 days ago

US and Saudi Arabia sign $142bn arms deal as Trump to meet Syrian leader

White House touts deal made at first stop of Donald Trump’s four-day diplomatic tour to the Gulf states

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The United States and Saudi Arabia have signed a $142bn arms de…

21 days ago

Sean Penn says he’d work with Woody Allen again ‘in a heartbeat’

The actor, who was speaking on The Louis Theroux Podcast, also cast new light on his meeting with former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, and had harsh comments on both Donald Trump and Elon Musk

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36 days ago

The international criminal court should prosecute Syria’s Assad | Kenneth Roth

For the foreseeable future, international courts provide the only realistic prospect of justice for Syrians

There are few regimes as cruel as the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad. There was seemin…

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