Syria Post-Assad Transition

Since the December 2024 fall of Assad, an HTS-rooted transitional government under Ahmed al-Sharaa governs from Damascus but faces recurring sectarian violence against Alawite and Druze communities, unresolved integration of the Kurdish-led SDF, Turkish pressure in the north, and continued Israeli airstrikes and territorial incursions. ISIS remnants exploit security gaps while sanctions relief and reconstruction remain fragile and conditional.

WHAT CHANGED · LAST 72H

• —Transitional government asserts authority but cannot prevent periodic sectarian killings in the coastal and southern regions.
• —SDF-Damascus integration deal signed but stalls over autonomy, oil fields, and command structure.
• —Israel conducts repeated strikes and holds buffer positions in the south; Turkey presses against Kurdish forces in the north.