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Latest news from Syria as covered by the Guardian. News and stories about the country, people and politics

20 December 2024

  • Israeli forces in a village in Daraa province's Yarmouk Basin, as their occupation of Syrian territory continues to expand

    Israeli troops shoot Syrian protester as forces move beyond buffer zone

  • A man gestures as people loot the Najha military housing complex in southeast Damascus

    Twenty photographs of the week
    The week around the world in 20 pictures

  • A crowd of people holding flags

    US lifts $10m bounty on HTS leader after talks in Syrian capital

  • Abdul Hamid Dabaiba

    Libyan PM resists Russia’s move to reinforce military bases in country

  • Middle East crisis live
    Middle East crisis: mediators push on with Gaza ceasefire talks amid fresh strikes – as it happened

  • ‘How do we live in this terrible world?’ a reader asked me. Here’s the only answer I have

    Jonathan Freedland

  • Syria has always been an Israeli obsession. Now it has unexpectedly given Netanyahu his coveted image of victory

    Aluf Benn

  • Iran scrambles to build ties with Syrian leaders as regional influence wanes

  • Top US diplomats arrive in Damascus to meet new Syria leaders in first visit since Assad outing

  • Inside Aleppo, the city Assad left to rot as a lesson in the price of rising up

19 December 2024

  • MANCHESTER, 17th December 2015 - Guardian writer Helen Pidd at home in Manchester with her Syrian lodger, Yasser. (Credit: Christopher Thomond, The Guardian)

    Today in Focus
    Yasser’s story: the Syrian refugee who lived with me - podcast

    Helen Pidd speaks to her former lodger, Yasser, a Syrian refugee contemplating moving back home
  • Burned out machinery at a power plant

    Middle East crisis live
    Netanyahu says ‘whoever harms Israel will pay heavy price’ after Houthis claim attacks on Israel – as it happened

    Israeli prime minister says air force attacked targets in Yemen ‘in response to Houthi attacks’ as Houthis say they have attacked Tel Aviv overnight
  • Members of the Syrian community in Istanbul celebrate the fall of Bashar al-Assad, 8 December 2024.

    The balance of power is shifting in the Middle East – and it is Turkey’s ‘full moon’ on the rise

    Hassan Hassan
    Ankara’s support of Syria’s rebels was a strategic triumph that confirms it is replacing Iran as the regional powerhouse, says Hassan Hassan, editor-in-chief of New Lines magazine

18 December 2024

  • A Palestinian girl at a tent camp sheltering displaced people in Al-Mawasi area.

    Middle East crisis live
    Middle East crisis: Israel issues fresh Gaza evacuation order despite increasing ceasefire hopes – as it happened

  • A group of people sitting in rows in the corner of a room

    Bulgaria trying to force out Syrian asylum seekers after fall of Assad

  • Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, speaks to soldiers

    Netanyahu says Israel will occupy Syria buffer zone for foreseeable future

  • A large crowd of people waving flags.

    We Syrians are like people in chains who have finally broken free. But the reality of liberation is not easy

    Mona Rafea

17 December 2024

  • Mortar shells lying on the ground after a Turkish airstrike near Qamishli, north-east of Syria.

    Middle East crisis live
    Middle East crisis: UN envoy to Syria warns conflict is not over amid ‘significant hostilities’ – as it happened

    Geir Pedersen warns of intense clashes between Turkish-backed and Kurdish groups in the north
  • Martin Rowson on Bashar al-Assad’s new life in Moscow – cartoon

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Martin Rowson on Bashar al-Assad’s new life in Moscow – cartoon

    The former president of Syria fled to Russia a week ago
  • Syrian people living in Istanbul hold up a banner showing Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, as they celebrate the end of Bashar al-Assad’s reign.

    ‘Ankara is getting what it wants’: how Erdoğan’s balancing act in Syria paid off

    Turkey tried to stall the HTS rebels’ offensive but has now become Syria’s ‘gateway to the outside world’
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