Syria

Thousands of ISIS-linked women, children still held in Syria’s camps amid escape efforts - analysis

While some of them have been repatriated over the last six years, many of them remain.

 An ISIS member carries an Islamic State flag in Syria.
Soldiers from the IDF's 810th Mountain Brigade operate in Lebanon's Mount Dov, September 2025.

WATCH: IDF publishes footage of 810th Brigade in Syria, Lebanon on anniversary of brigade founding

 Syrian security forces walk together along a street, after clashes between Syrian government troops and local Druze fighters resumed in the southern Druze city of Sweida early on Wednesday, collapsing a ceasefire announced just hours earlier that aimed to put an end to the violence, July 16 2025

Security must come first in order for the North to prosper - opinion

Damascus' Jewish Quarter, as seen in August 2025, betrays signs of the local exodus and decade of civil war.

In Damascus’ former Jewish quarter, optimism about the Syrian Jewish future is hard to muster


Fall of the Assad dictatorship as symbolic as fall of Berlin Wall, says US congressman - interview

In the interview with the Post, Wilson spoke about the new Syria he witnessed and the opportunities that lie ahead.

US Rep. Joe Wilson (R-South Carolina), Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-New Hampshire), Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, US Special Envoy for Syria Tom Barrack.

Sweida security shake-up highlights Syria’s struggle with Druze autonomy - analysis

Syria reassigns top security commanders in Sweida, aiming to calm Druze tensions as secession fears grow.

Tribal and bedouin fighters deploy in the western neighbourhood of southern Syria's predominantly Druze city of Sweida, amid clashes with Druze gunmen on July 19, 2025.

Syria detains defense, interior ministry members suspected of Sweida violence

Izzedin declined to say how many personnel were detained, but said they were Syrian nationals who carried out the atrocities in an individual capacity.

 Syrian security forces walk together along a street, after clashes between Syrian government troops and local Druze fighters resumed in the southern Druze city of Sweida early on Wednesday, collapsing a ceasefire announced just hours earlier that aimed to put an end to the violence, July 16 2025

The end of the Muslim Brotherhood, but the birth of neo-jihadism - opinion

Ahmed al-Sharaa is engineering neo-jihadism: a new hybrid ideology that fuses the political tactics of the Muslim Brotherhood and the violent rigor of al-Qaeda and ISIS.

SYRIAN PRESIDENT Ahmed al-Sharaa attends the opening of the Damascus International Fair, the first held since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, in Damascus, last week. ‘Sharaa is engineering something I call neo-jihadism,’ says the writer.

Syrian site bombed by Israel contained traces of uranium, nuclear watchdog says

The United Nations nuclear watchdog has launched an investigation into a site suspected of having been used for nuclear operations.

This undated image released by the US government shows the nuclear reactor under construction in Syria that was destroyed in an Israeli air strike on September 6, 2007

Airstrikes, cautious diplomacy: Israel and Syria draw closer - opinion

Cautious diplomacy will continue to guide Israeli-Syrian relations.

SYRIAN FOREIGN MINISTER Asaad al-Shaibani attends the Munich Security Conference earlier this year. Reportedly, he has met more than once with Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, the writer notes.

Ex-IDF analysis chief: Chances of security deal with Syria are higher than with Lebanon - interview

In the case of Syria, the concessions needed by either side to reach a deal “are less dramatic and easier than getting Hezbollah to disarm in Lebanon,” Kuperwasser said.

 IDF soldiers seen operating in southern Syria, in pictures dated to March 2025

Druze in Syria consolidate control - but will they seek independence? - analysis

Druze leader Hikmat al-Hijri calls for a separate region in southern Syria, seeking autonomy after sectarian violence, with Israeli support amid rising tensions in the region.

A delegation of 100 Druze leaders from Syria visits northern Israel for the first time since 1973 on March 14, 2025. Israeli Druze proudly wave their own national flag alongside the Israeli flag in festivals and ceremonies, the writer points out.

IDF confirms terror suspects arrested, weapons seized in overnight Syria raids

Israeli forces carried out raids in southern Syria, detaining suspects and uncovering weapons amid reports of strikes near former Iranian positions.

IDF soldiers conduct overnight raids in Syria, August 27, 2025.

Freed hostage Emily Damari meets Israeli Druze leader amid Sweida violence

Emily Damari noted the similarity between the pain felt by Israelis and Druze in their respective situations, Israelis with the war in Gaza and Druze with the violence erupting in Sweida. 

 Emily Damari prepping for surgery.

Israeli strikes in Syria continue into third day, sparking regional condemnations - analysis

The Kingdom of Jordan said that it had condemned, “in the strongest terms, the repeated Israeli violations and its infiltration into Syrian territory."

 Smoke rises after strikes on Syria's defense ministry in Damascus, according to Al Jazeera TV, in Damascus, Syria July 16, 2025.