Syria

Eyvon Bastouri from Syria came to Ireland in 2016. She has a busy life, juggling two children and her own projects, including her fledgling baking business

After years of economic misery, discontent with the regime of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi could explode into protest in Egypt

Amer Matar, who fled Syria in 2011, runs an online archive that helps people to search for information about their loved ones

Works by Yukio Mishima, Samar Yazbek, Solvej Balle, Zahran Alqasmi and Vincenzo Latronico

West Bank at risk of even more violence, and events in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria have significantly weakened Iranian regime

The residents of Yarmouk ‘need help rebuilding’ the enclave of the Palestinian diaspora, which was reduced to rubble by Syrian and Russian air forces

Regional and western ministers along with senior diplomats pursue ways to advance country’s recovery

Binyamin Netanyahu’s order for Israeli troops to ‘take over’ a buffer zone with Syria upended decades of relative calm along the de-facto border between the two countries

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has held talks with European and US officials, as well regional government ministers

Critics fear rebel-backed government is pushing religious vision on to what has long been a secular country

Trump’s re-election fuels global turmoil in which Putin is the biggest of many autocrats blending kleptocracy and dictatorship. US institutions and international treaties are fading, and Ukraine and Palestine have been betrayed

Residents returning to Tadamon, once a rebel stronghold near Damascus, find mass graves and expropriated homes

In the space of a single year, the Islamic Republic of Iran effectively lost three of the key elements in its so-called axis of resistance

Clash broke out in Tartous province, a stronghold of the ousted president Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite minority

Assad was diagnosed with acute form of disease in May and has been given 50/50 chance of survival

Syria cautions Iran on spreading chaos in country; and Israel fails to curb armed gangs looting Gaza food convoys

The future is far from certain, but over juice and cakes one group of relatives celebrates finally being in the same room together

As China and Russia weigh up their options in anticipation of Donald Trump’s second presidency, horrified countries in the Global South see Gaza as an emblem of US and European double standards

US diplomats discuss transition principles with representatives of Syria’s new de facto rulers led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham

Moscow ‘ready for negotiations and compromises’ to end the fighting, Russian president says during carefully controlled press conference

Life under Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has generated mixed responses

France raises flag at Damascus embassy as Europan Union officials prepare to engage with administration

Taoiseach said he would not comment on ‘personalised and false attacks and remains focused on the horrific war crimes being perpetrated in Gaza’

Ousted president makes first statement since being toppled from power

Attacks on arms centres, alleged chemical weapons facilities, and military air and sea resources are essentially defensive in nature, Israel claims

The Islamist rebels who ousted Bashar al-Assad ran a pragmatic and disciplined administration in the territory they controlled

Central bank sent planeloads of dollars in 2018 and 2019 when dictator was indebted to the Kremlin

Plateau annexed in 1981 is not recognised as Israeli territory by most countries

Arab countries called for end to hostilities in Syria and said they would support the transitional government

The group that brought down the Assad regime might be in the process of reinventing itself but it would be foolish to imagine that the Islamists of HTS have converted to the cause of liberal democracy

The Assad regime’s collapse has left Syrians in Ireland facing the ‘confusing’ option of returning to their country of origin, something they believed to be impossible before now

Decades of brutal dictatorship in Syria came to a remarkably swift end when Bashar al-Assad fled to Moscow and opposition forces took control of Damascus

One young man says, ‘I’m so mentally happy because any other regime that comes could never be as bad as the regime that has collapsed’

Samir Ousman Alsheikh (72) headed the Adra prison, as it is colloquially known, during the period 2005 to 2008

The country deserves maximum international and regional support as it confronts the mammoth tasks ahead

Yemen-based Houthis are the only full-strength survivors of Tehran’s axis of resistance

Refugees in Germany and elsewhere are in ‘wait and see’ mode after fall of Assad regime

US defends Israel’s operations in Syria since fall of Assad

Minister for Justice says fall of Assad regime ‘really positive’ but it is not clear what will happen next in Syria

Rebel coalition calls for people to return to work and ‘contribute to building a new Syria’