Wednesday, 11 December, 2024 , 08:37 AFP —

Wednesday, 11 December, 2024 , 00:17 AFP — Syria's new transitional prime minister on Tuesday said it was time for "stability and calm" in the country, two days after longtime president Bashar al-Assad was toppled by rebels in a lightning offensive.

Tuesday, 10 December, 2024 , 22:54 AFP — Syrian rebels who ousted president Bashar al-Assad said on Tuesday that they had taken the eastern city of Deir Ezzor, while a war monitor confirmed Kurdish forces had withdrawn.

Tuesday, 10 December, 2024 , 22:13 AFP — Fighting between Turkish-backed and Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria has left 218 people dead in just three days, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor reported on Tuesday.

Tuesday, 10 December, 2024 , 22:05 AFP —

Tuesday, 10 December, 2024 , 21:08 AFP — For more than a decade, the United States has sought to keep out of Syria's political debacle, seeing no viable partner. Islamist rebels' toppling of strongman Bashar al-Assad has forced a change of tune -- and a debate over just what US interests are.

Tuesday, 10 December, 2024 , 17:37 AFP — Israel's bombing of Syrian military assets and its entry into the UN-patrolled buffer zone on the Golan Heights show it fears the worst from the end of the Assad clan's rule, analysts told AFP.

Tuesday, 10 December, 2024 , 16:27 AFP — A Syria war monitor said Tuesday that Islamic State group jihadists in central Homs province killed 54 soldiers who were fleeing as Islamist-led rebels pressed a major offensive on government-controlled areas.

Tuesday, 10 December, 2024 , 15:11 AFP — Syria must never be divided again, and Turkey will act against anyone seeking to compromise its territory, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday.

Tuesday, 10 December, 2024 , 14:06 AFP — The UK government said Tuesday it was "keeping a very, very close eye" on the potential return of British jihadists from Syria, in the fallout of the ousting of president Bashar al-Assad.