Syria's new leaders, since toppling Bashar Assad in December 2024, have struggled to assert their full authority over the war-torn country.

Government forces have seized a strategic town in eastern Syria, intensifying their push against Kurdish-led forces east of the Euphrates River.

The capture follows tensions between Damascus and the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, flared earlier this month, leading to deadly clashes and the government taking control of three Aleppo neighbourhoods from Kurdish fighters.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Kurdish National Council (ENKS/KNC), an umbrella group of Kurdish opposition parties in northeast Syria (Rojava), on Sunday welcomed a decree issued by Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa allegedly to guarantee certain Kurdish rights,

US Senator demands accountability after alleged human rights violations by Syrian forces against Kurdish civilians in Aleppo amid ongoing conflict.

Syrian troops swept through dozens of towns ‌and ​villages in the country's north on Saturday ‌after Kurdish fighters withdrew under an agreement that aimed to avoid a bloody showdown between ​the rival forces.

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Friday rejected the Syrian Arab Army’s calls for its fighters to join the national army, calling the appeal a sign of political and military weakness amid escalating tensions in northern Syria.