Pro-Israel triumphalists are celebrating a trifecta: in the course of a little over a year, Israel has felled or significantly set back its three most troublesome enemies: Hamas, Hezbollah, and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad.

In joint press conference with Qatari PM, Ahmed Al-Sharaa says Damascus will welcome presence of UN peacekeepers in demilitarized area between countries

Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said on Thursday his country is ready to welcome UN forces into the UN established buffer zone with Israel.

Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani holds joint press conference with head of Syria's new administration Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus - Anadolu Ajansı

The new leadership of Syria is ready to accept a United Nations peacekeeping contingent, which will be deployed on the border with Israel.Syria's de facto

Amid the turmoil, Israel expanded its occupation of Syrian land in the south of the country, expelling hundreds of Syrians from their homes. It also launched a devastating campaig

Businessman Kamel Amin Thaabet arrived in the Syrian capital of Damascus in 1962. He threw lavish parties, became part of the city's social elite and quickly gained access to the country's most powerful men.

Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said Israel leveraged Iran's presence to gain ground in Syria, as he said Damascus would welcome

Israel’s continued military operations in Syria, which it said on Sunday are intended to “strengthen the defense of Israel’s citizens,” have drawn accusations from the United Nations and some member states that Israel is violating a decades-long cease-fire by sending its troops within and beyond a buffer zone between the countries.

A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital, an essential link between Europe and the Arabian Peninsula during the Ottoman Empire and then a national transit hub. But more than a decade of war left it a wasteland of bullet-scarred walls and twisted steel.

With an Israel-Hamas cease-fire set to begin, the shock waves from their war have reshaped the region in unexpected ways.