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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

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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
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, left, shakes hands with Ahmad al-Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammed al-Jolani during their meeting in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday.

Suit, tie and a new name: Syria’s rebel chief turns statesman

The former Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, leader of the offensive that overthrew the Assad regime, is trying to build a new state.

  • Adam Rasgon
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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CNN investigates claim man ‘rescued’ from Syrian jail was part of Assad’s forces

The man found under a blanket in a prison in Damascus had claimed he had been arrested three months ago and interrogated about his phone contacts.

  • Benedict Smith
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Deposed Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.

‘Never considered stepping down’: Bashar al-Assad says Russia forced him to flee Syria

In his first statement since the fall of Damascus, the exiled former president said he wanted to continue fighting.

  • Daniel Hardaker
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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
People sing and dance on top of a destroyed tank in Umayyad Square in Damascus, Syria, following the fall of the Assad regime.

Can Syria’s conquering rebels rebuild a shattered state?

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the Islamist group that led the overthrow of the Assad regime, will need to show it is willing to give political representation to Syria’s diverse sects and minorities.

  • Loveday Morris and Abbie Cheeseman

Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/topic/syrian-conflict-1n8v