The Turkish government is planning new moves to promote what it calls the “dignified return” for thousands of Syrian refugees ...

President Donald Trump met with Syria’s interim president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on May 14, a day after saying that he would order an end to U.S. sanctions on Syria in order to ...

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the heavily-bearded former Islamist insurgent who was once the target of U.S. counterterrorism operations, has taken another step towards full acceptance under ...

Ahmed al-Sharaa rose from al Qaeda militant to Syrian leader. President Trump's decision to lift U.S. santions on Syria is a major boost for Sharaa. Syrian rebels overthrew dictator Bashar al Assad in ...

Syria’s 13-year civil war ended abruptly in December, when rebels belonging to the Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham swept south from their bastions in the northwest of the country, ...

There was no mistaking the reek of death that rose along the Syrian desert highway four nights a week for nearly two years. It was the smell of thousands of bodies being trucked from one mass grave to ...

LONDON, May 14 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has said he will lift long-standing sanctions on Syria that severed the country from the global financial system under toppled former President ...

Syrian and Israeli officials have been holding talks about security arrangements along their shared border as part of U.S.-mediated efforts to reset decades of hostility. By Ben Hubbard Reporting from ...

A group of Jews who left Syria decades ago wants sanctions relief for a government with former ties to Al Qaeda, despite wariness from other Jewish groups and from Israel. By Ephrat Livni Reporting ...

Members of the Syrian Kurdish Asayish security forces stand guard at the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp, which holds relatives of suspected Islamic State (IS) group fighters in the northeastern Hasakeh ...