In a statement, the General Secretariat rejected recent Iranian statements aimed at fuelling divisions among the Syrian ...

Ms Barbara Leaf, the US diplomat for the Middle East, says the talks were positive. Read more at straitstimes.com.

DAMASCUS, Dec 21, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - Washington is scrapping a long-standing reward for the arrest of Syria's new leader, a ...

Hostage envoy Roger Carstens traveled to Syria Friday, making the first known U.S. in-person contact with the caretaker ...

Resolution 2254, agreed upon by the UN Security Council in 2015, outlined how the Syrian civil war might end and how the ...

"I appreciated hearing directly from Syrian civil society activists ... agreed upon by the U.S. and our regional partners in Aqaba. We welcomed positive messages, and we will be looking for ...

The Islamic State spread from Iraq into Syria, and Syria’s Kurdish ethnic minority created an autonomous region. Some of the armed groups that gained territory during the civil war also fought ...

The sudden downfall of longtime Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the hands of a rapid rebel offensive has brought a dramatic new turn to Syria's nearly 14-year civil war. While opponents of the ...

The number of US troops in Syria has regularly surged higher than the Pentagon has publicly disclosed since at least 2020, and in recent months increased to more than double the roughly 900 troops ...

A portrait of ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad is taken off the wall of a regime prison in Damascus, Syria. (Lorenzo Tugnoli for The Washington Post) The Syrian regime’s collapse came more ...

President Bashar al-Assad, who wielded fear and force over Syria for more than two decades, fled the country under the cover of night — and a fake political address. A banner of former President ...

Hostilities have escalated between Syrian rebels backed by Ankara and the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces in the northeast since Bashar al-Assad was toppled on Dec. 8. Syrian armed groups ...