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Umayyad Mosque at sunset – a Christian basilica in a previous life, a Roman temple to Jupiter before that.

A country too dangerous to visit is one I can’t wait to return to

As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and prosper and crumble into ruin”.

  • Luke Slattery

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Males in the village of Al-Janoudiya during the funeral of four Syrian security force members killed in clashes with Assad loyalists.

Syria’s worst violence in months claims an estimated 1000 lives

Syrian officials have acknowledged violations of humanitarian law, which they have blamed on unorganised masses wanting to support official security forces.

  • Timour Azhari
Syrian women chant slogans as they hold placards with Arabic that read: “No for free society without a free woman,” right, and “Secularism,” left, during a protest in December to demand a secular state.

Love poems axed from schools under Syria’s new ‘extremist’ curriculum

Other controversial moves include plans to remove references to gods from ancient history courses, as well as a period of history that saw France rule Syria.

  • Liz Cookman
Syria’s de facto leader, Ahmad al-Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammed al-Jolani.

Syrian elections could be four years away, says country’s new de facto leader

Ahmed al-Sharaa, the leader of the rebels who ousted the Bashar al-Assad regime, also plans to dissolve the group that took control of the country this month.

  • Hatem Maher and Menna AlaaElDin
Syrians hold a copy of the Quran next to a Christian cross during a demonstration in support of unity among minorities and the ousting of the Bashar Assad government in Umayyad Square, in Damascus.
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World of photos, December 29, 2024

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.

Whirling Dervishes and traditional performers dance during the mens wedding party of Mr. Muwaffaq Al-Badawi at a wedding hall in Damascus, Syria.
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World of photos, December 27, 2024

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.

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Asma Assad.

Russia denies reports Asma al-Assad is seeking a divorce and a return to London

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov also rejected media reports suggesting Bashar al-Assad had been confined to Moscow and had assets frozen.

  • Felix Light and Edith Lederer
Syrian rebels observe a location identified as a mass grave for detainees killed under the rule of Bashar al-Assad in Najha, south of Damascus.

Mass graves expose Assad regime’s ‘machinery of death’

“We really haven’t seen anything quite like this since the Nazis,” says an international war crimes prosecutor who estimates 100,000 people were killed.

  • Timour Azhari and Anthony Deutsch
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Syria shudders as Assad’s atrocities come into the light

At the country’s most notorious prison, Syrians confront their worst fears: that they will never know what happened to the loved ones who disappeared.

  • Christina Goldbaum
Amphetamine pills, known as Captagon, found hidden in electrical components at the lab in Douma, Syria.

Inside the largest known captagon lab financing the Assad regime

In the dark, cavernous warehouses at the abandoned site in Douma, fighters who ousted Assad found thousands of pills hidden in furniture, fruit and electronics.

  • Timour Azhari

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