Syria’s return to oil exports after the fall of the Assad regime is seen by many as a sign that Iran’s Shia Crescent of ...

China never intervened military in Syria, but it did support the Assad regime in other ways. After Assad's fall, China faces ...

United States President Donald Trump has lifted long-standing sanctions on Syria, while Israel expressed "interest" in peace ...

China’s aid to Syria jumped 100 times from roughly $500,000 in 2016 to $54m in 2017, according to COAR reports. In October 2018, China donated 800 electrical power generators to Latakia, Syria ...

Syria had not been not a central pillar of China's Middle East strategy, Jesse Marks, a non-resident fellow with the Stimson Centre's China programme and a former US defence adviser, said, adding ...

A top Chinese envoy has warned Damascus's new government not to support terrorism as a Syria-based Islamic militant group sent messages to Muslims in China's Xinjiang region, urging them to wage ...

The second reason involves China. "Syria is up for grabs," Mouaz Moustafa of the Syrian Emergency Task Force, a humanitarian group active in that country, said to me.

China on Monday said it “supports Syria’s efforts to maintain national security and stability” after a shock armed opposition-led offensive saw government forces lose control of Aleppo.

Syria joined China's flagship Belt and Road Initiative in 2022, but there have been no significant investments by Chinese firms since, partly due to sanctions.

China has been aligned with Assad since Syria’s civil war began in 2011—but largely through its close ties to Russia and Iran, which backed the Syrian leader.

China's ties with Syria are being tested by the sudden downfall of Beijing-friendly Bashar al-Assad, but analysts predict China and the new government in Damascus will take a pragmatic approach to ...