Ahmed al-Sharaa

The Lebanese Army on Tuesday withdrew from four border villages, two of them Christian-majority towns whose residents have refused to follow instructions from Israel to evacuate the area while the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) battle the Iran-backed terrorists of Hezbollah.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Monday pledged to work with Germany to enable more Syrians to return home and rebuild their country after its devastating civil war, as he made a historic visit to Berlin.

The United States has suggested that the government of former al-Qaeda jihadist Ahmed al-Sharaa in Syria is considering operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon and Damascus and weighing the prospects of entering the greater war on Iran, Reuters reported on Tuesday.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Sunday that President Donald Trump “engaged personally” with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) command Mazloum Abdi to halt clashes between the Syrian army and the Kurdish-led SDF in late January.

Members of the Alawite community in Syria face “constant” threats of violence, including “large-scale massacres,” abductions, and mob attacks, the head of the Alawites Association of the United States told Breitbart News, urging President Donald Trump to pressure the country’s leadership to respect the rights of minorities.

The government-run Syrian Arab News Agency confirmed that Syria has been elected as vice-chair of a crimes against humanity UN committee.

Former NBA star Enes Kanter Freedom, who the league sidelined after he condemned China’s ongoing genocide in East Turkistan, confirmed to Breitbart News this week that he continues to face persecution from the government of his native Turkey and urged Americans to “speak up and act” against repressors.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the head of the al-Qaeda offshoot Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), held a phone call on Tuesday with President Donald Trump shortly before his departure to Moscow to meet with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin.

A video began circulating on social media on Wednesday, published by the Kurdish news organization Rudaw, of a man identified as a “Damascus-affiliated armed group” member holding hair allegedly cut off the dead body of a Kurdish soldier.

President Donald Trump discussed the conflict in northeastern Syria with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a phone call on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump spoke by telephone with Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa on Monday to discuss the conflict between Sharaa’s forces and the Kurds of northeastern Syria, who have complained of abuses by government troops and blamed them for releasing around 120 Islamic State terrorists from a Kurdish-run prison in Hasakah province.

A torrent of violence, including reported beheadings and a prison break by Islamic State terrorists, erupted in Syria on Monday following the signing of an agreement between the jihadist federal government under President Ahmed al-Sharaa and the U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

The government of Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the head of the al-Qaeda offshoot Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), signed an agreement on Sunday with American-allied Kurdish forces in the country that dramatically strips away the latter’s autonomy in exchange for Damascus recognizing “Kurdish cultural and linguistic rights.”

Christians in Syria are choosing to “hide Christian symbols and avoid public displays of faith” following the collapse of the Assad regime and ascent of the al-Qaeda offshoot Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) to power, Ryan Brown, the CEO of the Christian human rights organization Open Doors, told Breitbart News in remarks this weekend.

The semi-autonomous Kurdish government in northeastern Syria on Sunday accused the Syrian Army and its affiliated militias of committing “war crimes” against Kurdish communities in the city of Aleppo.

The Syrian Army on Thursday told residents of Kurdish neighborhoods in the city of Aleppo to evacuate in the face of airstrikes.

Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa rolled out the country’s new currency at a ceremony in Damascus on Monday.

The Islamist government of Syria and independent human rights groups reported on Monday that three people were killed and dozens injured at an Alawite-led protest calling for Damascus to implement a less centrally controlled, federalist system.

The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), now under the control of Islamist President Ahmed al-Sharaa, has published weeks of content showing throngs of jubilant Christians in the country enjoying Christmas tree lightings, holiday markets, and other celebrations – a nod to the White House that Sharaa will respect religious tolerance.

Fighting broke out in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Monday between Kurdish fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and security troops loyal to President Ahmed al-Sharaa.

The Islamic State terrorist organization published a statement on Thursday celebrating the killing of three Americans, two servicemen and a civilian, in Syria last week, but stopped short of taking responsibility for the attack.

Syria’s ousted dictator Bashar Assad fled to Moscow when he was driven from power and has reportedly settled into a new life as a celebrity ophthalmologist since his usefulness to the Russian government has come to an end.

A spokesman for the Syrian Interior Ministry appeared to confirm this weekend that the man who killed two American soldiers and an interpreter in Palmyra was employed with the jihadist government’s security forces, but claimed that he was “under review” for “extremist” opinions.

In the same week Syrians were celebrating a new chapter in their country, an ambush has killed two U.S. soldiers and an interpreter in Syria, the Pentagon announced.

Syria has approved the first Jewish organization to be officially recognized since Syria became an independent nation in the 1940s.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky congratulated his Syrian counterpart, former al-Qaeda terrorist Ahmed al-Sharaa, on Monday on the occasion of the anniversary of the fall of former Syrian dictator Bashar Assad.

Christian communities in the Syrian cities of Latakia and Homs held celebrations this weekend marking the beginning of Advent, the Christmas season, lighting Christmas trees and opening themed markets.

Terrorist leaders in the Middle East have a tradition of using an alias, pseudonym, or “nom de guerre,” even when their true identities and given names are common knowledge.

Syrian security forces used gunfire on Tuesday to disperse feuding groups of protesters in Latakia, a coastal town in the area dominated by the once-influential, but now persecuted, Alawite religious minority.

The Islamist regime governing Syria sent its top diplomat to Beijing on Monday for meetings with Foreign Minister Wang Yi in which the Chinese Communist Party invited Syria to join its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a debt trap scheme for impoverished countries.

The government of Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa announced on Sunday that it had arrested unnamed individuals with its “state security” apparatus for human rights violations against the Druze people during clashes this summer.

Multiple Syrian news outlets reported on Wednesday that the Franciscan Order has once again taken control of the Al-Ram School, formerly the Jesuit School, of Aleppo, over 50 years after the Assad dynasty’s Socialist Baath Party confiscated it.

After meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, Syria’s interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa said Trump supports his call for Israel to remove its forces from Syrian territory.