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    • Monday, 22 May, 2023
      Bashar al-Assad
      Amnesty brands COP28 invitation to Assad as ‘sick joke’

      Condemnation over climate summit follows readmission of Syria to Arab League

    • Friday, 19 May, 2023
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Syria’s president al-Assad welcomed back into fold at Arab League summit

      Countries to discuss initiative with leader to encourage millions of refugees to return

    • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      The misguided re-engagement with Syria’s Bashar al-Assad

      Readmission to the Arab League sends a chilling message to regime’s victims

    • Monday, 15 May, 2023
      COP28
      Syrian leader Assad invited to COP 28 climate summit in Dubai

      Move likely to cause disquiet among those expressing disdain for the pace of reconciliation with Damascus

    • Sunday, 7 May, 2023
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Arab League to readmit Syria after decade-long hiatus

      Damascus was banned from regional organisation following brutal crackdown against 2011 uprising

    • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
      Francisco Rodríguez
      The harm that sanctions do to the vulnerable

      Western countries’ foreign policy tool of choice has a dramatic negative effect on living standards

    • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
      Rachman Review podcast28 min listen
      How far will the rehabilitation of Assad go?

      Syrian leader finds himself courted by Arab regimes eager to solve local problems

    • Wednesday, 3 May, 2023
      Iran
      Iran’s president visits Syria as he seeks to bolster Tehran’s sway over ally

      Islamic republic pushes for ‘upper hand’ in war-torn country’s reconstruction

    • Monday, 1 May, 2023
      News in-depthMiddle Eastern politics & society
      Arab world weighs price for Assad’s rehabilitation

      Diplomats say Syria’s pariah leader will be expected to make concessions to enable his return to Arab League

    • Monday, 1 May, 2023
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Erdoğan says Isis leader killed in operation by Turkish forces

      US has not confirmed Ankara’s strike on Islamist leader Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi

    • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
      Kim Ghattas
      How far should the Arab world go in normalising Assad?

      Sudan holds a lesson for those heads of state now beating a path to Damascus

    • Tuesday, 18 April, 2023
      Syrian crisis
      Saudi foreign minister meets Assad in Damascus on first visit since 2011

      Some Arab countries have resisted normalising ties with Syria’s wartime president

    • Sunday, 16 April, 2023
      David McCloskey
      Russia’s myth-making in Syria was a template for the horrors in Ukraine

      Moscow’s support for Assad is a precedent for its scorched-earth strategy against Kyiv

    • Saturday, 15 April, 2023
      Foreign ministers undecided on readmitting Syria to Arab League

      Opponents of normalisation say Assad has done little to rehabilitate himself

    • Wednesday, 12 April, 2023
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Saudi Arabia hosts Syrian foreign minister for first time since civil war

      Visit is the latest sign that Arab countries who once opposed regime are moving closer to embracing Damascus

    • Monday, 10 April, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
      The rising influence of Mrs Assad

      China corruption probes are going after financial executives for 'hedonism'

    • Sunday, 9 April, 2023
      Israeli-Palestinian conflict
      Israeli strikes on Syria targets cap week of tensions

      Attacks come after 48 hours of tit-for-tat violence ignited by police raid at Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque

    • Saturday, 8 April, 2023
      Iraq
      Iraq demands Turkey apologise for drone strike on Syrian Kurdish leader

      Mazloum Abdi, a US ally against Isis, escaped the attack on an airport in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region

    • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
      Two people killed in Israeli air strikes on Damascus suburb

      Attacks come days after Israel downed what it said was an Iranian drone that crossed into its territory from Syria

    • Sunday, 2 April, 2023
      The Big Read
      Syria’s state capture: the rising influence of Mrs Assad

      The first lady now has a leading role in a regime that is plundering the wealth of its people

    • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
      Bashar al-Assad
      Assad cousins hit with sanctions over amphetamine trade that funds regime

      Captagon is estimated to be worth $57bn annually to the Syrian government

    • Friday, 24 March, 2023
      Syrian crisis
      US air strikes target Iran-backed militants in Syria

      Washington retaliates following drone attack that killed an American contractor

    • Wednesday, 8 March, 2023
      News in-depthTurkey-Syria earthquake
      Spy chief’s daughter highlights UN’s tangled relations with Syrian regime

      Sanctioned figure’s daughter works for UN agency as quake exposes compromises in aid provision benefiting regime

    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
      Egyptian official meets Assad as Arab nations re-engage with Syria

      Rare visit by Cairo’s foreign minister is latest signal that regional leaders are moving beyond policy of isolation

    • Tuesday, 21 February, 2023
      Turkey-Syria earthquake
      Fresh tremors hit earthquake-devastated province in Turkey

      Further deaths reported after buildings damaged two weeks ago collapse

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