I was at the Damascus residence of Iraqi politician and publisher Fakhri Karim. A visitor, who appeared weighed down with disappointment, arrived. I tried to persuade him to return to journalism after ...

Whatever differences emerge between Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and its predecessors, whether suddenly or incrementally, all ...

Around the capital Damascus, stores are now lined with Turkish bottled water, Saudi-produced bouillon cubes, Lebanese ...

Syria's new caretaker government has told business leaders it will adopt a free-market model and integrate the country into ...

But Germany's foreign minister said sanctions against “Assad’s henchmen who committed serious crimes” must remain in place.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) still had to accept the fact that Syria's new ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa ...

Germany’s foreign minister says sanctions against Syrian officials responsible for war crimes must remain in place but called ...

Diplomats from the Middle East and Europe are due in the Saudi capital on Sunday to talk about Syria as world powers pursue ...

The meeting is the first to include both Syria's new rulers and top Western officials. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Assad, President-elect Donald Trump stated that he thinks what happens in Syria "is not our fight." In this web exclusive, outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken explains to correspondent Martha ...

They say disparate violent incidents in the past two months—including alleged extrajudicial killings and the destruction of a ...