"Trust must exist first and foremost," Syrian Democratic Council representative to the U.S. Sinam Mohamad told Newsweek.

An outbreak of brutal, sectarian violence in Syria has intensified debate in Congress over whether to follow President Trump’s directive to lift all sanctions on the country. While Trump has put his ...

Also in our car was Hwaida Saad, a longtime Lebanon reporter for The Times who had covered Syria in depth and with great ...

Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, ... Iran and Russia, but the group has retained an insurgent presence since its 2019 defeat. ...

Syria's Christian community has shrunk from around one million before the war to fewer than 300,000 due to ... The jihadists were territorially defeated in Syria 2019 but have maintained a ...

A naturalized U.S. citizen who pleaded guilty to receiving military training from the Islamic State in Syria was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.

Syria's economic turmoil worsened in 2019 when neighbouring Lebanon, with which it has extensive economic and financial ties, also descended into crisis.

The extremists were defeated by a U.S.-led coalition in Iraq in 2017 and in Syria in 2019. Tens of thousands of people linked to the group were taken to Al-Hol camp close to the Iraqi border.

Syria has welcomed the move by the Trump administration to ease sanctions, ... A measure by the U.S. State Department waived for six months a tough set of sanctions imposed by Congress in 2019.

Islamic State group seized large swaths of Syrian and Iraqi territory in the early years of the civil war, declaring a cross-border "caliphate" in 2014. The jihadists were territorially defeated in ...