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.
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.
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.
The government of Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa marked the one-year anniversary of the fall of the city of Aleppo to his terror organization, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), seeking to balance his jihadist past with a U.S.-friendly future.
The Islamist junta which overthrew Syrian dictator Bashar Assad in December 2024 took the unusual step of allowing a Halloween party in Damascus on Friday.
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani announced in a speech on Sunday that the country’s president, former jihadist terror chief Ahmed al-Sharaa, will visit the White House in early November.
The Kremlin confirmed on Thursday that strongman Vladimir Putin engaged his Syrian counterpart, jihadist President Ahmed al-Sharaa, on Russia’s interest in maintaining its two military bases in the country.
Archbishop Ignatius Aphrem, the patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church, told the Kurdish outlet Rudaw in an interview published Wednesday that the president of Syria, former al-Qaeda offshoot terror leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, personally promised that he would respect the rights of Christians.
The jihadist “interim” government of Syria sent a delegation to Moscow on Thursday for talks to facilitate better communication with the defense ministries of both countries, reports claimed – a challenge following Russia’s decades-long support of former dictator Bashar Assad, who the current government deposed.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and Ahmed al-Sharaa of Syria, arguably the two most anti-Russian leaders in the world, held their first in-person meeting in New York on Wednesday, vowing to support each other in rebuilding following years of Russian-backed attacks.
A senior United Nations official informed the Security Council on Monday that, according to the organization’s estimates, over 2 million Syrians have been able to return to their homes in the aftermath of the collapse of the Bashar Assad regime in December.
A senior Israeli official acknowledged this week that Israel helped topple the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad indirectly by preventing the Iranian regime from reinforcing Assad’s failing military.
German court sentenced a Syrian doctor to life for torturing detainees at military hospitals under former ruler Bashar al-Assad.
The Syrian energy ministry on Tuesday attributed a nationwide blackout to a “technical malfunction in the electrical system.”
Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Yusuf Sharif told Russian media on Wednesday that an agreement first proposed in 2017 to give Russia a naval base on the Red Sea coast will finally proceed, giving Moscow an opportunity to replace the base it lost in Syria with the fall of dictator Bashar Assad.
Turkey is a “key concern” for observers fearing the erasure of Christian communities of post-Assad dynasty Syria, a leading persecution expert told Breitbart News, describing Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as someone who sees “himself as a leader destined by Allah to elevate Turkey and Islam’s influence.”
Mouaz Moustafa, a former Democrat congressional aide and current lobbyist who long pushed for U.S.-led regime change in Syria, attempted to smear Tulsi Gabbard, nominee for Director of National Intelligence, in an interview with Politico published online Thursday.
The Kremlin says claims the wife of deposed dictator Bashar al-Assad is filing for divorce so she can move to London do not “correspond with reality”, amid claims the couple are under effective house arrest in Moscow after fleeing Syria.
China’s envoy to the United Nations declared on Tuesday that Beijing is seeking to “play a constructive role” in the future of Syria following the fall of Chinese ally Bashar Assad.
Assad regime war criminals should think twice before trying to pass themselves off as refugees in Germany, the government warns.
A man emerged from prison in Syria claiming to be American Travis Timmerman, who went missing in Hungary.
The militants who topped the regime of dictator Bashar Assad in Syria are “al-Qaeda and ISIS hiding who they really are” and their rule “will be a disaster for Christians,” predicted Jeff King, the president of International Christian Concern (ICC), in remarks to Breitbart News on Tuesday.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported Wednesday that it had discovered out-of-service Syrian tanks in the former demilitarized zone between the two countries — while Syrian rebels discovered the Assad regime’s captagon stockpile.
Dr. Sebastian Gorka, who will be the deputy assistant to the president and senior director of counterterrorism in the soon-to-be-minted Trump administration, said during a special Founders Roundtable on Breitbart Fight Club that the fall of the Assad regime in Syria is a mighty blow to Iran.
The Taliban terrorist organization governing Afghanistan was among the global actors celebrating the demise of the Iran-backed regime of Bashar Assad in Syria, congratulating the Sunni jihadist outfit Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) following Assad’s flight from the country on Sunday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that Israel is destroying what is left of the Syrian military just as the British destroyed the fleet of the defeated Vichy regime in France so the Nazis could not use it.
The jihadist terrorist organization Hamas celebrated the victory of fellow jihadis Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Syria in a message on Monday, applauding their “aspirations for freedom and justice” prevailing over the now-defunct regime of Bashar Assad.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry issued vague statements on Monday that it was “closely following the situation in Syria” and expressed hope for “stability” in the aftermath of the collapse of the regime of Beijing ally Bashar Assad.
Christians in parts of Lebanon celebrated the downfall of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad over the weekend, gathering in town squares to launch celebratory fireworks and gleefully tearing down pictures of Assad from border crossings.
Christians in Lebanon are celebrating the release of several prisoners who were abducted by the Syrian regime over several decades of occupation and who are now, finally, free after the sudden collapse of the Assad regime on Sunday.
In the wake of the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, Germany and Austria have suspended all asylum applications from the war-torn country until further notice.
The Syrian jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) notified the Islamist government of Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan six months ago that it had a plan of conquest to overthrow former Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, Reuters reported on Monday.
Democrats have criticized former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) for meeting with then-Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in 2017, but their own leaders — including then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) — did so as well, for years.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched hundreds of attacks on Syrian heavy weaponry and suspected chemical weapons facilities in the 24 hours since the fall of the Assad regime, as Israeli soldiers moved into Syrian territory.
BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson was ridiculed Sunday after he called fleeing Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad “weak rather than wicked.”
The fall of the Assad regime in Syria has been hailed by globalist leaders, however, there are growing warnings that the instability in the country may lead to a repeat of the migrant crisis that destabalised Europe.
Vice President-elect JD Vance supported President-elect Donald Trump’s stance on staying “out of” the situation in Syria, stating that what is happening is not the United States’ “fight.”
President Joe Biden delivered a short address from the White House on Sunday, claiming credit for the toppling of the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, who was ousted by rebels after a long and brutal reign lasting decades.
Ousted former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has found asylum in Russia after fleeing his country on Sunday, according to Kremlin sources quoted in the international media.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Sunday that it could confirm that longtime Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, a close ally of Moscow’s, had resigned from his position and fled the country.
