The Trump administration on Friday announced sanctions relief for Syria as part of a series of steps to end decades of penalties and to stabilize the country. The Treasury Department said it will ...

On the Saudi leg of his four-day tour, the president issued a sweeping change to U.S. policy toward Syria. First, he announced, to riotous applause in Riyadh, that the United States would suspend all ...

Syrian security forces ambushed Islamic State sleeper cells in the northwest city of Aleppo over the weekend, killing three terrorists in surprise attacks on multiple safe houses. The raids, the ...

The transitional Syrian government could collapse and spur a “full-scale civil war of epic proportions” without U.S. engagement, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Rubio’s remarks ...

The new Syrian government has agreed to help the United States locate and return Americans who went missing in the war-ravaged country, the U.S. special envoy to Syria said on Sunday, in another ...

The agreement to allow Syrians to return from al-Hol camp comes amid a push for closer cooperation between Damascus and Kurdish authorities in the country's northeast. Syria’s national ...

This briefing paper, presented by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), aims to provide insight into the evolving political landscape of Syria. It seeks to highlight the significant developments ...

The Trump administration on Friday lifted a wide range of sanctions against Syria, the first major step to fulfill a promise made this month by President Donald Trump to help the country rebuild ...

Turkistan Islamic Party emir Abdul Haq al Turkistani (center) appears in a video released by the group in May 2022. The new Syrian government is integrating a Central Asian terrorist group that is ...

ALEPPO, Syria — Syrian authorities and a Kurdish-led force exchanged Monday more than 400 prisoners as part of a deal reached earlier this year between the two sides. The exchange in the ...

A crane is on the loose after escaping from the Cougar Mountain Zoo in Issaquah on Wednesday. The zoo announced that one of its juvenile East African crowned cranes had made its way outside of the ...

President Donald Trump announced while in Saudi Arabia on May 14, 2025, that the United States would lift sanctions on Syria. The turnaround was a huge victory for the government of Syrian ...