Syria

Defined as a shrewd and ambitious man, the leader of the Arab country has combined a firm hand with openness since bringing down the Assad regime

The country’s 17 million inhabitants, who have suffered through violence, displacement, poverty, a pandemic, and an earthquake, have only about 100 mental health professionals. Experts estimate that at least 10,000 are required

The longest-serving political prisoner under the regime is now revered as a hero. ‘I was always free here,’ he declares, tapping his temple

The fall of the regime brings to light the scheme by which Damascus produced 80% of this substance during the war. The rebel authorities are burning the pills, which they discovered in workshops and mansions during their lightning advance

Residents of Syrian villages near the occupied Golan Heights, where the Israeli army has now advanced, report that the military even fires on the population

Police, soldiers, and army officers who served under the old regime are registering with the new authorities to demonstrate their renunciation of the dictatorship

The country’s industrial capital, a religious melting pot and a strategic crossroads, is trying to rise from the devastation with which the regime punished this opposition stronghold

While there is cautious optimism among the communities in Aleppo, which have lived with HTS for longer, in the Damascus region there is wariness over the rise to power of an Islamist group, heir to the jihadism that attacked churches a decade ago

Residents of the main opposition stronghold in Damascus province, who have suffered from famine, chemical attacks, and brutal repression, are demanding punishment for the regime’s leaders

Authorities in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region warn that Ankara is preparing an offensive to occupy all the territory they control

After distancing itself from Al Qaeda, the militia spent years trying out an administration in Idlib province that set it apart from other rebel factions and which it is now partially transferring to the rest of the country

Hope for the future prevails over uncertainty in the southern city a week after the fall of the regime: ‘I am finally going to lay down my weapons to return to university after a decade of war’

The head of European diplomacy insists that now is not the time to talk about the recognition of the new Syrian government and asks the 27 for a common position on the return of refugees

Israeli forces have entered the Arab country for the first time in half a century to try to prevent the new authorities from using military capabilities against the Jewish State

The Sednaya military prison is filled with desperate people seeking news of their loved ones, clinging to the rumor that thousands of prisoners remain in underground cells

The Syrian National Council, the main opposition organization supported by Turkey, and Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, the fundamentalist group leading the offensive, are the predominant actors on which a possible transition period will fall

Bashar Assad’s government was widely deemed by the international community to be responsible for the Aug. 21, 2013, sarin gas attack in the suburb of Ghouta

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