Syria has been a work in progress, a nation to be rebuilt, since the downfall of its autocratic president, Bashar al-Assad, a ...

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Damascus faces critical infrastructure challenges ... far removed from daily life in a province where power still flows from the barrel of a gun and foreign donors shape policy from afar.

A Syrian fighter holds a gun with a flower placed in the barrel, as people gather for Friday prayers at the Umayyad mosque in Damascus, Syria, Friday, Dec. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa ...

Governance Amid Syria's Fragmentation Muhammad al-Bashir-not former Syrian Prime Minister in exile Riad Hijab or current ...

sermonizes to worshippers during Friday prayer inside the 7th century Umayyad Mosque in Damascus (AP) A Syrian fighter holds a gun with a flower placed in the barrel, as people gather for Friday ...

More than half a century of brutal rule by the Assad clan came to a sudden end on Sunday, after a lightning rebel offensive swept across the country and took the capital. Assad's fall has also led ...

From the lifeless infants pulled from the rubble of barrel bombings ... beanie hats on machine gun-mounted motorbikes. Onwards they tumbled down the M5 highway to Damascus, government strongholds ...