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Syria’s new rulers crack down on alleged Assad loyalist militias
Clashes erupted last week in several cities across Syria between Assad supporters and the new government, which is led by Islamist rebels.
Syria’s New Government Steps Up Pursuit of Assad Loyalists
Finding the remnants of the old dictatorship and bringing them to justice has emerged as a top priority for the new administration in Syria.
Syria's interim government to disband al-Assad's security agencies
Syria's transitional government has vowed to dissolve and restructure all security agencies of the toppled dictator Bashar al-Assad's regime accused of mass killings and abuses. Al-Assad, who ruled Syria for more than two decades,
Syria’s new rulers try to contain growing tensions involving Assad loyalists
Unrest is brewing in Syria’s coastal plains, home to the Assad family’s Alawite sect. Earlier this week, a group of regime loyalists staged an ambush on the now-governing rebel forces, killing 14. With the Shia Alawite sect making up only 10 percent of the population in the majority Sunni country,
Investigators race to secure evidence of atrocities by Syria’s Assad regime
War crimes investigators, Syrian civil society and rights groups are scrambling to preserve evidence of the Assad regime’s crimes after key sites were ransacked in the chaotic aftermath of this month’s rebel victory.
New Syrian govt captures 300 Assad loyalists, cracks down on informants and former soldiers
Syria's new authorities have ramped up their crackdown on loyalists of the Assad regime. Rebels led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham have arrested 300, including informants, pro-regime fighters and former soldiers.

Ukraine's foreign chief pledges support for a new Syria

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'Foreign jihadists' in Syria leader's pick for army officers: monitor, experts
Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has tapped dozens of former rebels for high-ranking army positions, several of whom ...
Clashes between Islamists now in power in Syria and Assad’s supporters kill 6 fighters
A British-based war monitor said clashes between Islamists who took over Syria and supporters of ousted President Bashar ...
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Military official involved in Assad’s ‘human slaughterhouse’ arrested in Syria
A former top military official who issued death sentences for detainees in Damascus’s Sednaya prison has been arrested by ...
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Ukraine FM in Syria, urges interim government to expel Russia
The visit follows Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announcing a large shipment of wheat flour to war-torn Syria as the ...
UN investigative team says Syria’s new authorities ‘very receptive’ to probe of Assad war crimes
The U.N. organization assisting in investigating the most serious crimes in Syria says the country’s new authorities were ...
Assad loyalists kill 14 in clash with Syria's new ruling forces - authorities
Syria's new rebel-led authorities say supporters of ousted President Bashar al-Assad have killed 14 interior ministry troops ...
How Syria’s rebels overcame years of a bloody stalemate to topple Assad
The Syrian regime’s collapse came more quickly than the rebels had dreamed — the circumstances were both serendipitous and ...
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