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Syria's first women graduate from new police academy

Around 150 women have graduated from Syria's new police academy, boosting efforts to rebuild security forces and increase women’s role in policing.

23 September 2026

Syria

Al-Sharaa vows Golan Heights will remain Syrian in UN speech

At an Atlantic Council panel the day before, the Syrian president said he openly told Trump he had no right to recognise Israeli sovereignty over the Golan, quipping that the US president should give New Jersey to Israel instead.

23 September 2026

Libya

Tripoli busts Gaddafi-shaped pills as captagon appears in Libya's east

Tripoli intercepted 100,000 tablets bearing the late Libyan leader's image shipped via Europe in a Renault Master van, while Benghazi's investigators separately seized captagon tablets assessed to have originated in Syria, where the al-Assad regime once industrialised the billion-dollar trade.

17 September 2026

United Arab Emirates

Escalation coming but region must keep calm, al-Sharaa tells Euronews

Answering Euronews' question at the Arab Media Summit in Dubai, Syria's president said he hoped the situation "remains stable" but admitted "nobody can predict" what happens next, while urging Arab countries to work together.

15 September 2026

Syria

Fuel price protests spread across Syria as minister faces hearing

Demonstrators blocked oil tanker routes and roads in six provinces on the second consecutive day of unrest over a 25-40% fuel price rise, as more than 50 MPs signed a demand to question the energy minister.

14 September 2026

Syria

Shadow broker- fixer network exploits Syrians at Lebanon border

A market of fixers, travel agencies and border brokers charges Syrians between $180 for a 48-hour stay and $4,700 for annual residency, far above Lebanon's official fees, as procedures have tightened sharply since al-Assad's fall.

10 September 2026

Syria

Wartime weapons depot explosion kills 14 outside Syria's Idlib

The blast at a temporary storage site for wartime munitions near the town of Sarmada left 11 others injured, with rescue teams still searching for survivors. A person is killed or wounded by unexploded ordnance every six hours in Syria today, according to humanitarian workers.

9 September 2026

Syria

SDF leader now al-Sharaa's adviser as Syria's Kurdish force disbands

The appointment came days after Abdi declared the Kurdish-led force dissolved and integrated into the Syrian army, ending a decade of independent existence in a move Washington called "genuine integration".

28 August 2026

Syria

Syria's top Druze leader calls community 'integral part of Israel'

Sheikh al-Aql Hikmat al-Hijri made the declaration at a gathering in Suwayda, praising Israel's model of state-building and saying the two communities shared doctrinal "common denominators," a statement that deepens the rift with Damascus.

28 August 2026

Economy

Syria's president pays for coffee with Visa card as sanctions era ends

Syria's president paid for a coffee in Damascus with a Visa card this week to mark the country's removal from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism and the reconnection of its banks to the global financial system.

27 August 2026

Syria

Syria's main Kurdish force SDF ceases to exist after army merger

Commander Mazloum Abdi announced the SDF's dissolution at the presidential palace in Damascus, ending the existence of the Kurdish-led force that served as Washington's main partner against the so-called Islamic State terrorist group.

26 August 2026

Syria

Al-Sharaa: US terror list removal 'shakes off dark stain' from Syria

Washington rescinded a designation in place since 1979, lifting severe economic restrictions and opening the door to private investment, as the US State Department also removed the terror designation from HTS, the group al-Sharaa led to topple Assad.

25 August 2026

Europe News

Syrian criminal clans: What challenge does Germany face?

Criminally organised groups pose a consistently high threat, a federal report has found. Some states, including Saxony, have a "Taskforce Clan" as one group there has recently attracted particular attention.

24 August 2026

Syria

Syrians who came home after al-Assad's fall find a complicated reality

Nearly 3.6 million Syrians have returned since al-Assad's fall to destroyed homes, dysfunctional bureaucracy, power cuts and wages a fraction of what they earned abroad. Euronews spoke with those who returned: some are rebuilding, while others are already planning to leave again.

21 August 2026

Europe News

Finland charges woman with taking children to IS-run areas of Syria

The woman, in her 40s and now residing in Finland, first brought her children to Syria in 2014, according to a preliminary police investigation.

20 August 2026

Syria

Lebanon extradites al-Assad's general to Syria for war crimes trial

The move comes as the new Syrian government, led by interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa looks to hold senior members of al-Assad’s regime accountable for crimes committed during the country’s civil war, which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.

20 August 2026