When US President Donald Trump traveled to the Middle East in May, few expected the trip to produce a diplomatic turning ...

A senior Iraqi security official urged his driver to pick up speed as they raced toward Damascus airport. He needed to catch ...

Fireworks lit the sky and music blared on Monday in the center of Syria’s capital, Damascus, as tens of thousands of people ...

A former leader of Al Qaeda has convinced Washington that he’s a liberal reformer. Now comes the hard part of following ...

For the first time in 16 years, I took the opportunity to go to Damascus, where I was born but have never lived. I was expecting an emotional reckoning of the weight of reconnecting with a heritage ...

Bashar al-Assad fled for Russia a year ago as rebels commanded by Syria‘s new president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, seized Damascus and ...

London: One hundred and ninety-two days separated the last meeting between Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Syria’s ousted President Bashar al-Assad in Tehran from the moment the Syrian regime ...

Syrian transitional authorities have taken positive steps on justice, transparency and rights but failed to prevent continued ...

The choices made now will determine whether the next generation inherits a smarter, stronger region or another cycle of ...

From exile in Moscow, ex-intel chief Kamal Hassan and Assad cousin Rami Makhlouf are spending millions in competing efforts to build fighting forces to lead a revolt along Syria’s coast. The ...

Taken together, these stories show that independence is not a guarantee of stability or prosperity. It is simply the beginning of a new chapter, one shaped by leadership, resources, geography, global ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a rare meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ahead of a summit aimed at shaping a political settlement to end the six-year civil war in the country.