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    • Sunday, 3 September, 2023
      Syria
      Syrian protesters call for Assad’s removal as economic crisis spirals

      Anti-regime demonstrators in Sweida say they are struggling to feed their families

      Protesters gather in the southern city of Sweida
    • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
      UK politics
      UK under fresh pressure to bring home nationals held in Syria

      Relatives of Britons suspected of links to Isis call on government to step up repatriation efforts

      A woman walks through Camp Roj
    • Wednesday, 28 June, 2023
      Syria
      ‘The day my breath stopped’: families await UN body to trace Syria’s missing

      Member states prepare to vote on institution to investigate the fate of 100,000 people who have disappeared

      Fadwa Mahmoud holds portraits of her son and husband, who disappeared in 2012, in Berlin, Germany
    • Monday, 19 June, 2023
      UK imposes sanctions on Syrian and Congolese officials accused of sexual violence

      Four men given travel bans and have assets frozen in effort to stamp out use of rape as a weapon of war

      Syria’s defence minister Ali Mahmoud Abbas
    • Friday, 19 May, 2023
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Syria’s president al-Assad welcomed back into fold at Arab League summit

      Countries to discuss initiative with leader to encourage millions of refugees to return

      Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad, centre, arrives in Jeddah on Thursday ahead of the Arab League summit
    • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      The misguided re-engagement with Syria’s Bashar al-Assad

      Readmission to the Arab League sends a chilling message to regime’s victims

      Bashar al-Assad meets with Saudi’s ambassador to Jordan, Nayef bin Bandar Al-Sudairy, this week in Damascus
    • Monday, 15 May, 2023
      COP28
      Syrian leader Assad invited to COP 28 climate summit in Dubai

      Move likely to cause disquiet among those expressing disdain for the pace of reconciliation with Damascus

      Bashar al-Assad
    • Sunday, 7 May, 2023
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Arab League to readmit Syria after decade-long hiatus

      Damascus was banned from regional organisation following brutal crackdown against 2011 uprising

    • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
      Rachman Review podcast28 min listen
      How far will the rehabilitation of Assad go?

      Syrian leader finds himself courted by Arab regimes eager to solve local problems

    • Wednesday, 3 May, 2023
      Iran
      Iran’s president visits Syria as he seeks to bolster Tehran’s sway over ally

      Islamic republic pushes for ‘upper hand’ in war-torn country’s reconstruction

      Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during an open session of parliament
    • Monday, 1 May, 2023
      News in-depthMiddle Eastern politics & society
      Arab world weighs price for Assad’s rehabilitation

      Diplomats say Syria’s pariah leader will be expected to make concessions to enable his return to Arab League

      A montage of the Arab League and Syria flags and photos of Bashar al-Assad and Faisal bin Farhan
    • Monday, 1 May, 2023
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Erdoğan says Isis leader killed in operation by Turkish forces

      US has not confirmed Ankara’s strike on Islamist leader Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi

      Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
    • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
      Kim Ghattas
      How far should the Arab world go in normalising Assad?

      Sudan holds a lesson for those heads of state now beating a path to Damascus

      Syrian president Bashar al-Assad (R) welcomes Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan to Damascus last week
    • Tuesday, 18 April, 2023
      Saudi foreign minister meets Assad in Damascus on first visit since 2011

      Some Arab countries have resisted normalising ties with Syria’s wartime president

    • Sunday, 16 April, 2023
      David McCloskey
      Russia’s myth-making in Syria was a template for the horrors in Ukraine

      Moscow’s support for Assad is a precedent for its scorched-earth strategy against Kyiv

      María Hergueta illustration of Putin and Assad side profiles on a war field fence made from barbed wire, drawn on a red background.
    • Saturday, 15 April, 2023
      Syria
      Foreign ministers undecided on readmitting Syria to Arab League

      Opponents of normalisation say Assad has done little to rehabilitate himself

      Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad, right, with Egypt’s foreign minister Sameh Shoukry in Damascus in February
    • Wednesday, 12 April, 2023
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Saudi Arabia hosts Syrian foreign minister for first time since civil war

      Visit is the latest sign that Arab countries who once opposed regime are moving closer to embracing Damascus

      Deputy minister of the Saudi Foreign Ministry Waleed El Khereiji meets Syrian minister of foreign affairs and expatriates Faisal Mekdad in Jeddah
    • Monday, 10 April, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
      The rising influence of Mrs Assad

      China corruption probes are going after financial executives for 'hedonism'

    • Saturday, 8 April, 2023
      Iraq
      Iraq demands Turkey apologise for drone strike on Syrian Kurdish leader

      Mazloum Abdi, a US ally against Isis, escaped the attack on an airport in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region

      A member of the Syrian Democratic Forces and US soldiers stand bay their armoured vehicles on the outskirts of Rumaylan in Syria’s northeastern Hasakeh province last month
    • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
      Syria
      Two people killed in Israeli air strikes on Damascus suburb

      Attacks come days after Israel downed what it said was an Iranian drone that crossed into its territory from Syria

      Syrian air defence flares in the sky
    • Sunday, 2 April, 2023
      The Big Read
      Syria’s state capture: the rising influence of Mrs Assad

      The first lady now has a leading role in a regime that is plundering the wealth of its people

      Asma al-Assad in front of Damascus skyline, with currency bearing her husband’s face
    • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
      Bashar al-Assad
      Assad cousins hit with sanctions over amphetamine trade that funds regime

      Captagon is estimated to be worth $57bn annually to the Syrian government

      Captagon is a highly addictive amphetamine whose trade has become an economic lifeline for the regime
    • Friday, 24 March, 2023
      US air strikes target Iran-backed militants in Syria

      Washington retaliates following drone attack that killed an American contractor

      Lloyd Austin
    • Wednesday, 8 March, 2023
      News in-depthTurkey-Syria earthquake
      Spy chief’s daughter highlights UN’s tangled relations with Syrian regime

      Sanctioned figure’s daughter works for UN agency as quake exposes compromises in aid provision benefiting regime

    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
      Syria
      Egyptian official meets Assad as Arab nations re-engage with Syria

      Rare visit by Cairo’s foreign minister is latest signal that regional leaders are moving beyond policy of isolation

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