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Chemical weapons watchdog delegation meets with Syria's new leaders

A delegation from the global chemical weapons watchdog has arrived in Damascus to meet with Syria’s new leaders for the first time since the fall of former President Bashar Assad
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February 3, 2025 at 7:54 AM

At least 15 killed in car bomb explosion in northern Syria

At least 15 people were killed and dozens wounded Monday when a car bomb exploded in the outskirts of a northern Syrian city
February 3, 2025 at 7:54 AM
This is a locator map for Syria with its capital, Damascus. (AP Photo)
January 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM

The discovery of brutal mass graves in Syria reveals Assad's legacy of horror

Syria’s Civil Defense has uncovered over two dozen charred bodies in two basements in rural Damascus, adding to the growing tally of mass graves discovered since the ousting of Bashar Assad
January 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
A Syrian civil defense worker, known as a White Helmet, holds a skull while inspecting human remains found in two separate basements in Sbeneh, outskirts of Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. According to the White Helmets, the charred remains belong to at least 26 victims of the Bashar Assad regime. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)
1 month 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.
1 month ago
VIDEO: Advocacy group working to find Americans missing in Syria
2 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.
2 months ago
Stock concept photo of U.S. and Syria.
2 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.
2 months ago
US delegation visits Syria to 'meet with representatives of HTS'
2 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."
2 months ago
VIDEO: Israel launching more strikes on Syria 'a real concern'
2 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.
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VIDEO: Syrians uncovering 'massive' graves could find 100,000 bodies, NGO says
2 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.
2 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.
2 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.
2 months ago
VIDEO: Syria's Assad blames 'terrorism' for regime loss
2 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.
2 months ago
VIDEO: Syria's Assad blames 'terrorism' for regime collapse
2 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.
2 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.
2 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.
2 months ago
VIDEO: Israel ramps up assault in Syria
2 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.
2 months ago
VIDEO: Post-Assad Syria begins to take shape after 50-year reign ends
2 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.
2 months ago
VIDEO: Top diplomats from US and Middle East gather to discuss Syria
2 months ago

American Travis Timmerman on his way home

U.S. military is flying the former captive out of Syria after months in captivity.
2 months ago
VIDEO: American Travis Timmerman on his way home
2 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.
2 months ago
ABC's James Longman inside of Assad’s secret police headquarters, Branch 235.
2 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. 
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American freed and returning home after 7 months in Syrian prison
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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.
2 months ago
How Syria's dictator funded a regime of terror
2 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.
2 months ago
How rebel groups in Syria brought down the regime
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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.
2 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.
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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.
2 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.
2 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.
2 months ago
VIDEO: UNICEF official on humanitarian aid needed for Syria
2 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.
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VIDEO: Parents of missing American found in Syria speak out
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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.
2 months ago
ABC's James Longman visits Sednaya Prison near Damascus, Syria.
2 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.
2 months ago
VIDEO: Iran the ‘big loser’ with changing Syria: International security expert
2 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.
2 months ago
Freelance journalist Austin Tice went missing in Syria in 2012 and has not been heard from since.
2 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.
2 months ago
Mazen Al-Hamada is shown in a scene from the documentary "Syria's Disappeared," by Afshar Films.
2 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.
2 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.
2 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.
2 months ago
Inside Syria’s fallen regime
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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.
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VIDEO: Missing American believed to be found in Syria
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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.
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VIDEO: Missing American found alive wandering barefoot in Syria
2 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.
2 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.
2 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.
2 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.
2 months ago

'We are all angry': Syrian doctor describes bodies from prisons showing torture

Family members and friends of thousands of missing Syrians are continuing their search for those disappeared by former President Bashar Assad's regime.
2 months ago
A father hugs his 15-year-old son after they identify his older son, Mohammad, at a morgue in Damascus, Syria, on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024.
2 months ago

Syrian families search for their missing; American found near Damascus

ABC News' Marcus Moore reports on the thousands of families in Syria searching for their loved ones who vanished under Assad's regime.
2 months ago
VIDEO: Syrian families search for their missing; American found near Damascus
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Iran's leader blames US, Israel for Assad's fall, shifts tone toward Syrian groups

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a speech Wednesday that the U.S. and Israel were behind the fall of former President Bashar Assad.
2 months ago
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with a group of people in Tehran, Iran, Dec. 11, 2024.
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Syrian families look for loved ones after fall of Bashar Assad

ABC News’ James Longman reports on families’ frenzied search for loved ones who vanished under Assad’s brutal regime.
2 months ago
VIDEO: Syrian families look for loved ones after fall of Bashar Assad
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US sent Austin Tice 'message' to Syria's HTS rebels emptying Assad prisons

The U.S. is communicating with rebel groups inside Syria amid the search for missing American journalist Austin Tice, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said.
2 months ago
This file photo shows U.S. journalist Austin Tice who went missing in Syria in 2012.
2 months ago

Families desperately searching for missing loved ones across Syria

Syrians have been searching for their loved ones who vanished under the brutal Assad regime, as leaders of the new government vow to go after former top officials.
2 months ago
VIDEO: Families desperately searching for missing loved ones across Syria
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The threats of a post-Assad Syria in the region

Sinam Sherkany Mohamad, the Syrian Democratic Council's representative to the U.S., discusses the escalating fighting between U.S.-backed Kurds and rebel groups supported by Turkey.
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VIDEO: The threats of a post-Assad Syria in the region
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Inside Assad’s abandoned palace in Syria

ABC News’ James Longman steps inside the ransacked and looted palace in Damascus after rebel forces toppled Bashar Assad’s regime.
2 months ago
VIDEO: Inside Assad’s abandoned palace in Syria
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IDF says they've destroyed almost all Assad regime capability

Retired Israeli brigadier general Assaf Orion and ABC News’ Britt Clennett discuss the Israel Defense Forces’ airstrikes which have destroyed most of Assad regime army's capability throughout Syria.
2 months ago
VIDEO: IDF says they've destroyed almost all Assad regime capability
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Israel unleashes wave of devastating airstrikes across Syria

Israel is conducting airstrikes on military bases and naval ships to prevent them from falling into the hands of Syrian rebels. ABC News goes inside Assad’s presidential palace and a notorious prison.
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VIDEO: Israel unleashes wave of devastating airstrikes across Syria
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Former prisoner at Saydnaya prison in Syria recalls inhumane treatment

During Syria's civil war, human rights groups estimate that over 100,000 Syrians, including children, were held in appalling conditions at the notorious Saydnaya prison.
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A picture shows a cell at the Saydnaya prison as Syrian rescuers search for potential hidden basements at the facility in Damascus, Dec. 9, 2024.
2 months ago

Historic fall of Syrian government ends 50-year rule of Assad family

David Lesch, professor of Middle Eastern history at Trinity University discusses the fall of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime and his authoritarian rule.
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VIDEO: Historic fall of Syrian government ends 50-year rule of Assad family
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Inside one of Assad's presidential palaces  

ABC News' James Longman tours a palace in Damascus known as "the people's palace."
2 months ago
VIDEO: Inside one of Assad's presidential palaces  
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The impact of Syrian rebel takeover on the region

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy’s Aaron Zellin discusses the future of Syria under Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the group that led the coalition of rebels that defeated Bashar al-Assad’s regime
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VIDEO: The impact of Syrian rebel takeover on the region
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Fall of Assad is huge blow to Iran: Former DHS official

ABC News’ Marcus Moore and Elizabeth Neumann, the former DHS assistant secretary for counterterrorism, discuss the latest news out of Syria.
2 months ago
VIDEO: Fall of Assad is huge blow to Iran: Former DHS official
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US engaging with Syrian rebels will be ‘very difficult’: Defense expert

Mick Mulroy, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East, discusses what happens in the wake of rebel forces toppling the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
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VIDEO: US engaging with Syrian rebels will be ‘very difficult’: Defense expert