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May 22, 2025 at 12:21 AM

UN warns of renewed conflict in Syria but offers hope with sanctions lifting

The top U.N. official for Syria is warning of the “real dangers of renewed conflict and deeper confrontation” in the war-battered country
May 22, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Trucks carrying around 60 displaced families arrive in their village after more than five years in the Atmeh camps near the Syrian-Turkish border, in Kafr Sijna, south of Idlib, Syria, Sunday, May 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
May 18, 2025 at 3:22 AM

What to know about Syria's new president

He's a former al-Qaeda member, but on Wednesday, new Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa stood on the world stage with President Donald Trump.
May 18, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Syria's interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa shakes hands with President Donald Trump in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 14, 2025.
May 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM

Questions remain on deals, Syria sanctions following Trump's Middle East trip

Trump's first major foreign trip of his second term saw the U.S. secure more than $2 trillion in investment agreements in the Gulf region, according to the White House.
May 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
President Donald Trump speaks at the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 13, 2025.
May 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM

What to know about Syria's new president

He's a former al-Qaeda member, but on Wednesday, new Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa stood on the world stage with President Donald Trump.
May 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Al-Sharaa led the rebel offensive that toppled the Assad regime in 2024.
May 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM

World Bank says Saudi Arabia and Qatar have paid off Syria's outstanding debt

The World Bank says that the $15.5 million Syria owed it has been paid off by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, enabling Damascus to take out new loans
May 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
May 15, 2025 at 10:55 AM

US and Syrian leaders meet for the first time in 25 years

Before traveling to Qatar, the president lifted U.S. sanctions on Syria and became the first American president to meet with a Syrian president in 25 years.
May 15, 2025 at 10:55 AM
VIDEO: US and Syrian leaders meet for the first time in 25 years
May 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM

Trump says he will order cessation of sanctions against Syria

President Donald Trump announced that he will be ordering the cessation of sanctions against Syria "in order to give them a chance at greatness."
May 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
VIDEO: Trump says he will order cessation of sanctions against Syria
May 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM

Trump announces plans to lift U.S. sanctions on Syria in high-stakes trip to Mideast

Pres. Trump's move comes at the request of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince.
May 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
VIDEO: Trump announces plans to lift U.S. sanctions on Syria in high-stakes trip to Mideast
May 12, 2025 at 8:38 AM

Remains of 30 people believed killed by IS militants found in Syria

The remains of 30 people believed to have been killed by the militant Islamic State group have been found in a remote Syrian town in a search led by Qatari search teams along with the FBI
May 12, 2025 at 8:38 AM
This is a locator map for Syria with its capital, Damascus. (AP Photo)
2 months ago

US embassy in Syria tells Americans to leave, warns of 'potential imminent attacks'

The American embassy in Syria has warned all U.S. citizens to leave the country due to "the increased possibility of attacks" during the Eid al-Fitr holiday.
2 months ago
Confetti and flowers are dropped from a military helicopter onto a crowd during a celebration marking the 10th anniversary of the victory of rebel forces over Bashar Assad's army in Idlib, Syria, on March 28, 2025.
2 months ago

War correspondent details ‘heartbreaking’ violence in war-torn Syria

Journalist Janine Di Giovanni is also CEO and executive director of the nonprofit The Reckoning Project.
2 months ago
VIDEO: War correspondent details ‘heartbreaking’ violence in war-torn Syria
2 months ago

Hundreds killed during violent clashes in Syria

ABC News' James Longman reports on violent clashes between Sunni and Shia Muslims that left hundreds dead in Syria last week just months after dictator Bashar al-Assad was forced to flee the country. 
2 months ago
VIDEO: Hundreds killed during violent clashes in Syria
2 months ago

More than 1,300 killed in violent clashes in Syria

ABC News’ Marcus Moore and defense analyst Mick Mulroy discuss the deadly clashes between Syria’s new government and loyalists to the regime of former President Bashar al-Assad.
2 months ago
VIDEO: More than 1,300 killed in violent clashes in Syria
2 months ago

Deadly clashes kill at least 1,300 across Syria

ABC News' Lama Hasan says that the rising death toll in Syria is the “worst outbreak of violence” since former President Bashar al-Assad was forced out three months ago.
2 months ago
VIDEO: Deadly clashes kill at least 1,300 across Syria
2 months ago

Hundreds of civilians reported killed amid clashes of new government, Assad loyalists

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a U.K.-based war monitor that tracks casualties, reported that 1,018 people have been killed as of Saturday.
2 months ago
Hundreds of civilians reported killed amid clashes of new government, Assad loyalists
2 months ago

Hundreds of civilians reported killed in massacres as violence in Syria spirals

International alarm is growing over fighting in western Syria, where hundreds of civilians have been reportedly killed amid intense clashes.
2 months ago
Smoke rises while members of the Syrian forces ride on a vehicle as they battle against a nascent insurgency by fighters from ousted leader Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect, in Latakia, Syria March 7, 2025. REUTERS/Karam al-Masri     TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
2 months ago

Hundreds of civilians killed in massacres as violence in Syria spirals

The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, a U.K.-based war monitor that tracks casualties, reported that 1,018 people have been killed in the past two days.
2 months ago
VIDEO: Hundreds of civilians killed in massacres as violence in Syria spirals
2 months ago

Growing concerns after deadly clashes across Syria

More than a thousand people, mostly civilians, have died during fighting between government forces and supporters of former Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad.
2 months ago
VIDEO: Growing concerns after deadly clashes across Syria
3 months ago

Israel says it is conducting strikes in southern Syria

Israel confirmed it is conducting strikes in southern Syria, as the new Syrian government calls for the full withdrawal of Israeli forces from Syrian territory.
3 months ago
Israel's outgoing Foreign Minister Israel Katz during the handing over ceremony at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem, Nov. 10, 2024.
5 months ago

Advocacy group working to find Americans missing in Syria

Mouaz Moustafa, the executive director of the Syrian Emergency Task Force, provides an update on the work being done to find missing Americans in Syria.
5 months ago
VIDEO: Advocacy group working to find Americans missing in Syria
5 months ago

Abu Yusif dead: US officials announce ISIS leader killed in airstrike

U.S. officials announced they conducted an airstrike on Syrian soil that killed two ISIS members, including a top official.
5 months ago
Stock concept photo of U.S. and Syria.
5 months ago

US delegation visits Syria to 'meet with representatives of HTS'

Senior U.S. officials are in Syria for the first time since Bashar al-Assad fled Damascus, the State Department announced Thursday evening. ABC News’ Marcus Moore reports.
5 months ago
US delegation visits Syria to 'meet with representatives of HTS'
5 months ago

Israel launching more strikes on Syria 'a real concern'

Kings College London’s ICSR Associate Fellow Broderick McDonald says further fighting in the region will allow ISIS to "expands its operations and ramp up attacks."
5 months ago
VIDEO: Israel launching more strikes on Syria 'a real concern'
5 months ago

Syrians uncovering 'massive' graves could find 100,000 bodies, NGO says

Mouaz Moustafa, the head of the Syrian Emergency Task Force, told ABC News there are believed to be well over 100,000 bodies in a "massive" grave outside Damascus. ABC News' Marcus Moore reports.
5 months ago
VIDEO: Syrians uncovering 'massive' graves could find 100,000 bodies, NGO says
5 months ago

Syrians uncovering 'massive' graves could find 100,000 bodies, NGO says

Mouaz Moustafa, the head of the Syrian Emergency Task Force, told ABC News there are believed to be well over 100,000 bodies in a "massive" grave outside Damascus.
5 months ago
Members of Syria's White Helmets civil defense service prepare to transport bodies uncovered at a mass grave in Damascus on Dec. 16, 2024.
5 months ago

Syria's Assad blames 'terrorism' for regime loss

Former Syrian President Bashar Assad on Monday made his first official statement since being topped by a rebel offensive and fleeing the country for Russia.
5 months ago
VIDEO: Syria's Assad blames 'terrorism' for regime loss
5 months ago

Syria's Assad blames 'terrorism' for regime collapse

Ofir Akunis, the consul general of Israel in New York, says Israel doesn’t wants a new terror organization to replace former Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime.
5 months ago
VIDEO: Syria's Assad blames 'terrorism' for regime collapse
5 months ago

Syria's Assad blames 'terrorism' for regime collapse in first statement since defeat

Former Syrian President Bashar Assad on Monday made his first official statement since being topped by a rebel offensive and fleeing the country for Russia.
5 months ago
A billboard with a picture of Syria's former President Bashar Assad shows damage by bullet holes after his ousting in Damascus, Syria, on Dec. 16, 2024.
5 months ago

Israel ramps up assault in Syria

ABC News' chief international correspondent James Longman reports from Damascus as Israeli military forces target weapon facilities and air defenses in Syria.
5 months ago
VIDEO: Israel ramps up assault in Syria
5 months ago

Post-Assad Syria begins to take shape after 50-year reign ends

ABC News’ James Longman reports on the latest developments in Syria.
5 months ago
VIDEO: Post-Assad Syria begins to take shape after 50-year reign ends
5 months ago

Top diplomats from US and Middle East gather to discuss Syria

The rebel group that led the overthrow of Bashar Assad’s regime, known as HTS, is still considered a terrorist organization by the U.S.
5 months ago
VIDEO: Top diplomats from US and Middle East gather to discuss Syria
5 months ago

American Travis Timmerman on his way home

U.S. military is flying the former captive out of Syria after months in captivity.
5 months ago
VIDEO: American Travis Timmerman on his way home
5 months ago

Inside Assad’s secret police headquarters: Reporter's notebook

Much of the evidence of Assad’s crimes is lost, but in one room saved from a fire, we got a glimpse into the system of fear.
5 months ago
ABC's James Longman inside of Assad’s secret police headquarters, Branch 235.
5 months ago

American freed and returning home after 7 months in Syrian prison

Travis Timmerman, the American who was freed after seven months in a Syrian prison, is on his way home after being flown out of the country on a U.S. military helicopter. 
5 months ago
American freed and returning home after 7 months in Syrian prison
5 months ago

How Syria's dictator funded a regime of terror

ABC's James Longman explores a warehouse filled with illicit drugs that financed Bashar Assad's regime and goes inside the secret headquarters of a notorious division of the Syrian intelligence.
5 months ago
How Syria's dictator funded a regime of terror
5 months ago

How rebel groups in Syria brought down the regime

ABC News’ Phil Lipof speaks with Kings College London’s ICSR Associate Fellow Broderick McDonald about the fall of Syria’s regime and what the new leaders could look like moving forward.
5 months ago
How rebel groups in Syria brought down the regime
5 months ago

American flown out of Syria, now in US military custody

The exchange took place at the remote U.S. base in southeastern Syria known as At Tanf garrison, close to the border with Jordan.
5 months ago
In this photo released by the Syrian Department of Political Affairs, journalist Travis Timmerman, who was kidnapped during the Assad regime, is handed over to America officials.
5 months ago

Did the synthetic stimulant Captagon help lead to Assad regime’s downfall in Syria?

Captagon trade under the Assad regime generated billions annually for Syria, according to a 2023 study by the nonprofit Observatory of Political and Economic Networks.
5 months ago
A Syrian rebel fighter holds a container of pills of Captagon, a brand name of the drug psychostimulant Fenethylline, discovered at a drug manufacturing facility in the city of Douma in the Eastern Ghouta region on the eastern outskirts of Damascus, Dec. 12, 2024.
5 months ago

UNICEF official on humanitarian aid needed for Syria

UNICEF official Salim Oweis discusses the needs on the ground in Syria for civilians and children following the collapse of the al-Assad regime.
5 months ago
VIDEO: UNICEF official on humanitarian aid needed for Syria
5 months ago

Parents of missing American found in Syria speak out

The parents of Travis Timmerman recall those first moments they heard he was found alive and safe in Syria.
5 months ago
VIDEO: Parents of missing American found in Syria speak out
5 months ago

Inside Syria's notorious Saydnaya prison

ABC News Chief Foreign Correspondent James Longman reports at Saydnaya prison, where Syrians are searching for their lost loved ones.
5 months ago
ABC's James Longman visits Sednaya Prison near Damascus, Syria.
5 months ago

Iran the ‘big loser’ with changing Syria: International security expert

Emily Harding of the Center for Strategic and International Studies discusses what Syria’s shift in power means for the Middle East.
5 months ago
VIDEO: Iran the ‘big loser’ with changing Syria: International security expert
5 months ago

Austin Tice's parents reveal how the family coped for the last 12 years

The parents of Austin Tice spoke out in an interview with ABC News as the U.S. works to uncover their son’s whereabouts after the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria.
5 months ago
Freelance journalist Austin Tice went missing in Syria in 2012 and has not been heard from since.
5 months ago

Famous Syrian activist Mazen Al-Hamada found dead in Saydnaya

Al-Hamada travelled the world to share his testimony on the horrors of Assad's regime that he experienced in prison.
5 months ago
Mazen Al-Hamada is shown in a scene from the documentary "Syria's Disappeared," by Afshar Films.
5 months ago

US believes circulating video could show missing American, officials say

The U.S. said it believes a person seen in a video circulating online could be Travis Pete Timmerman, an American who went missing from Hungary earlier in the year.
5 months ago
Travis Timmerman, a U.S. citizen who had entered Syria from Lebanon on a Christian pilgrimage and had been detained for several months, speaks with reporters in a house in Damascus on Dec. 12, 2024, after he was found in the village of Thihabiyeh east of the capital, after rebels toppled longtime president Bashar al-Assad.
5 months ago

Inside Syria’s fallen regime

ABC News’ James Longman reports on the fall of the Assad regime and gets up close look inside Assad’s former palace, personal home and infamous prison.
5 months ago
Inside Syria’s fallen regime
5 months ago

Missing American believed to be found in Syria

Plus, Donald Trump was named Time’s Person of the Year. Our panel weighs in on the latest headlines.
5 months ago
VIDEO: Missing American believed to be found in Syria
5 months ago

Missing American found alive wandering barefoot in Syria

After seven months in captivity, Travis Timmerman was found wandering barefoot on Monday morning. He's one of thousands freed from prisons since rebel forces ousted the ruthless dictator Bashar Assad.
5 months ago
VIDEO: Missing American found alive wandering barefoot in Syria
5 months ago

How Syrian rebels took down Bashar al-Assad

The armed Islamist faction Hayat Tahrir al-Sham led a revolution toppling Syria's former president, and forcing him to resign and flee to Moscow.
5 months ago
The armed Islamist faction Hayat Tahrir al-Sham led a revolution toppling Syria's former president, and forcing him to resign and flee to Moscow.
5 months ago

US believes circulating video could show missing American, officials say

The U.S. believes an individual seen in a video circulating online could be Travis Pete Timmerman, an American who went missing from Hungary earlier in the year.
5 months ago
The U.S. believes an individual seen in a video circulating online could be Travis Pete Timmerman, an American who went missing from Hungary earlier in the year.