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A drone view of the mass grave site in the desert near the eastern Syrian town of Dhumair, February 27, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi

Assad government secretly moved mass grave to cover up killings: Reuters investigation

From 2019 to 2021, Syria’s authoritarian government carried out a secret operation to move tens of thousands of bodies from the exposed Qutayfah mass grave to a hidden site in the desert east of...

A satellite image, according to Reuters analysis, shows the C5-SKY jet taxiing to the runway before its flight out of Syria, at Hmeimim air base, Syria on 8 December 2024. 2025 Planet Labs PBC/Handout via Reuters

Operation Assad: The air mission to smuggle the Syrian despot's valuables

Photo: BSS/AFP

'No more fear': Stand-up comedy returns to post-Assad Syria

Sketch: TBS

The fall of Assad: Redefining power, resistance and politics in the Middle East

A man rides a bike on a street, after Syrian rebels announced that they have ousted Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria, December 8, 2024. REUTERS

Ukraine says Assad's fall underscores Russian weakness

File photo: Syria's President Bashar al-Assad addresses the new members of parliament in Damascus, Syria in this handout released by SANA on August 12, 2020. SANA/Handout via REUTERS

Iron-fisted Assad never quelled the Syrian rebels who came back to topple him

File photo: Syria's President Bashar al-Assad addresses the new members of parliament in Damascus, Syria in this handout released by SANA on August 12, 2020. SANA/Handout via REUTERS

Syria's Assad boosted by return to Arab fold

A general view shows the town of Majdal Shams near the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights March 25, 2019. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

Israel says it will keep Golan as Assad's fortunes, US views shift

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad visit an Orthodox Christian cathedral in Damascus, Syria January 7, 2020. Photo: Reuters

Putin meets Assad, takes swipe at US and Turkish forces in Syria

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad speaks as he meets with the Syrian cabinet in Damascus, Syria in this handout picture released by Sana on March 30, 2021.Photo :Reuters

Syria's Assad asks PM Hussein Arnous to form new cabinet