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Syria’s TV dramas screened during Ramadan are testing the post-Assad boundaries

Since Assad’s fall, actors and directors formerly divided along political lines are working together again, and series about once-taboo topics, like torture in Assad’s notorious prisons, are being shot inside Syria - but it's complicated

AP | 02.23.26

Pro-Assad singer killed in shootout with Syrian security forces

Jamal Assaf, known as 'Assad’s singer' for songs and rhetoric backing the ousted president and urging attacks on rebel strongholds like Idlib, was fatally shot during a raid in Aleppo, Syria’s Interior Ministry says, linking him to a smuggling network

Lior Ben Ari | 02.16.26

Damascus hotel introduces kosher menu as Jewish visitors return to post-Assad Syria

Hotel in Syrian capital begins serving kosher food for Jewish expats returning to visit their homeland; 'Currently, they are bringing meat from America, but God willing, after Passover a ritual slaughterer will come'

Lior Ben Ari | 02.12.26

Inside Assad’s collapse: Sex obsessions, Candy Crush and the killing of his spy lover

Atlantic journalist, citing sources in Israel, Damascus and Hezbollah, depicts Assad as arrogant, promising victory hours before collapse, then fleeing after Russians said it was over; his lover Luna al-Shibl became a Russian agent and was later found dead

ynet | 02.08.26

נשיא סוריה אחמד א שרע הסכם עם ה כורדים לכאורה

A decade of Kurdish autonomy in Syria is at risk, raising concerns for Israel

A shift in power in Damascus is weakening Kurdish self rule in northeastern Syria, a development that could strengthen hostile actors and alter the security balance along Israel’s northern frontier

Tal Amondai | 01.22.26

תמונה קרועה של נשיא סוריה לשעבר בשאר אל-אסד בכלא מזה

Lebanon arrests Syrian accused of funding Assad loyalists

Ahmad Dunia is suspected of financing Assad loyalists, allegedly funneling money from Lebanon to fighters in Syria’s coastal region, with officials citing ties to Rami Makhlouf and ousted General Suheil al-Hassan, believed to be in Russia

Associated Press | 01.14.26

‘Israel saved us from genocide’: Interview with Syrian Druze leader

After more than 2,000 Druze were killed in a brutal massacre, Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri says Israel’s airstrikes halted the bloodshed, condemns Syria’s rulers as jihadists and calls for an independent Druze entity in Sweida

Einav Halabi | 01.13.26

Drought, fires and breakthroughs: the environment in 2025

From historic droughts and devastating fires to geopolitical threats and scientific breakthroughs, 2025 exposed the growing pressure on nature and society in Israel and worldwide, alongside emerging technologies offering cautious hope

Yael Maslaton, Zavit | 12.31.25

Learning Russian, getting back to ophthalmology: the Assads' new life in Russian exile

The former Syrian dictator and his family are believed to be living in Rublyovka, an affluent Moscow suburb known for housing members of Russia’s political and business elite

ynet correspondents | 12.15.25

סוריה חגיגות שנה ל הפיכה ולהפלת משטר אסד פרברי דמשק

A year after Damascus fell, al-Sharaa gains global embrace as Syria reels from massacres

A year after rebels toppled Bashar Assad, Ahmad al-Sharaa is chasing legitimacy abroad while facing brutal bloodshed at home, from Alawite and Druze massacres to stalled Kurdish integration and tentative Israel talks as Syria marks Liberation Day'

Lior Ben Ari | 12.08.25

Report: Assad’s exiled spy chief, billionaire cousin plot uprisings in Syria from Russia

Rami Makhlouf and Kamal Hassan are financing tens of thousands of Alawite fighters and vying for control of hidden command centers along Syria’s coast, even as al-Sharaa’s government moves to block their efforts and rising unrest shakes the region

Reuters | 12.05.25

Lebanon captures notorious drug kingpin tied to Hezbollah and Assad regime

Nouh Zaiter, long wanted for leading a cross-border Captagon smuggling empire, arrested in a military operation in the Beqaa Valley; his capture comes amid growing regional pressure on Lebanon to dismantle drug networks linked to Hezbollah

Lior Ben Ari | 11.20.25

חאלד אל-חלבי גנרל לשעבר ב משטר אסד סוריה שברח לאירופה ומואשם בפשעי מלחמה ב אוסטריה בצילום שהעלה לרשת חברתית מבודפשט וסייע לאתר אותו

Syrian officer accused of torture hid in Europe for years under alleged Mossad protection

Khaled al-Halabi, a Syrian-Druze officer accused of torturing detainees during the 2011 Arab Spring crackdown, fled to Europe and vanished in 2015; he was arrested last year in Austria, where he allegedly lived in a Mossad-funded apartment under a secret deal

ynet | 11.13.25

Secret Assad-era torture dungeon uncovered in Syrian countryside

Foam mattresses, torture tools and militia documents found behind a locked iron door and linked to a tunnel, exposing widespread abuse of civilians under ousted president

Lior Ben Ari | 10.21.25

נשיא רוסיה ולדימיר פוטין נשיא סוריה אחמד א-שרע

Putin to meet Syria’s al-Sharaa, who reportedly plans to request Assad’s extradition

Syrian media says al-Sharaa plans to use his Moscow visit to formally request that Russia hand Assad over to Damascus for trial on charges of crimes against the Syrian people

Lior Ben Ari, News Agencies | 10.15.25

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