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SPECIAL DISPATCH: From Assad’s slaughterhouse jail to the hospital morgue piled up with mutilated bodies, desperate Syrians search for family members disappeared under a despot’s brutal regime, reports Bel Trew

Just a few weeks ago the name Ahmed al-Sharaa, 42, would barely have flickered an eyebrow beyond a narrow neighbourhood of northern Syria and Iraq. Better known under his nomme de guerre Abu Mohammed al-Jolani he may now be a candidate for personality of the year, an icon on the…

Israel plans to create ‘sterile defensive zone’ inside southern border, and Turkey bombs Kurdish targets in north Syria

Mazen al-Hamada had escaped to tell the world about regime’s torture before returning to Damascus

Syrians lived in terror for decades of what went on behind the concrete walls of Damascus's security compound.

Israeli warplanes have pounded military sites in Syria after Israeli troops seized a border buffer zone following the collapse of President Bashar Assad’s rule

Post-Assad leadership must prove its social and political inclusivity to shed terror designation, says UN envoy

Must-see moments as opposition fighters brought Bashar al-Assad’s brutal rule over Syria to a dramatic end.

Israel responds militarily in Syria post-Assad regime collapse, advancing into Syrian territory and targeting military installations and Iran-backed militias.

Israel conducts airstrikes near Damascus, targeting chemical weapons sites. International condemnation follows. Stay updated with AP's Syria coverage.