Image A photograph provided by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham showing Ahmed al-Sharamanaloplay, the rebel leader, in Damascus yesterday.Credit...Hayat Tahrir al-ShamSyria’s rebel leader called for lifting sanctions Ahmed al-Shara, the leader of the rebel coal
Image The residential building in Moscow where an explosive device was detonated.Credit...Maxim Shemetov/ReutersUkraine said it killed a Russian general in Moscow A general in charge of the Russian military’s nuclear and chemical weapons protection
Image Near the scene of the explosion that killed Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov in Moscow on Tuesday.Credit...Yuri Kochetkov/EPA, via ShutterstockRussia detained a man suspected of killing a general The Russian authorities said yesterday that they had deta
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2024-12-19Image A former member of Bashar al-Assad’s security forces handing over his weapons.Credit...Ivor Prickett for The New York TimesAl-Assad’s former soldiers are lining up for the future Hundreds of soldiers and police officers who served under Bashar
Image An Israeli military vehicle entering the buffer zone with Syria.Credit...Jalaa Marey/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesSyria was hit with a wave of post-Assad attacks Israel said that it had destroyed Syria’s navy in overnight airstrikes, as i
Image Crowds gathered near the Maasna border crossing into Syria.Credit...Daniel Berehulak/The New York TimesAl-Assad flees Syria as rebels take Damascus President Bashar al-Assad has resigned and fled Syria for Russiagambit city, according to Russia
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2024-12-11Image Syrians celebrated in Umayyad Square in Damascus yesterday.Credit...Daniel Berehulak/The New York TimesSyrians celebrated the unthinkable A day after the regime of President Bashar al-Assad fell, civilians poured into the streets of Damascus, S
Image Anti-regime fighters near a road leading to Hama province.Credit...Bakr Alkasem/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesFighting rages in Syria as rebels advance Rebel forces advanced in Syria amid fierce fighting, capturing the airport and the mili
Image Residents driving past a mosque in southern Lebanon, yesterday.Credit...Daniel Berehulak/The New York TimesLebanon’s cease-fire appeared to hold The uneasy truce between Israel and Hezbollah largely held through its second day in Lebanon yester