After Assad’s fall, al-Baghdadi was finally able to return. Like many, he was euphoric and hoped it would pave the way for ...

DAMASCUS: Samir al-Baghdad grabbed his pickax and walked up a wobbly set of stairs made of cinderblocks and rubble. He is ...

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That in turn could defuse tensions across the wider Middle East, where the war has stoked conflict in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iraq ... able to bring it in at scale,” ...

Photo: Photo by Maurizio Martorana for the Wall Street Journal Cindy McCain, the executive director of the United Nations’ World Food Programme, says aid workers in Gaza are seeing "smooth ...

Focus on Islamic teachings in police training raises concern among some Syrians Police trainers say this is to instil a sense of morality in recruits Bashar al-Assad's security forces had a ...

DAMASCUS, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Syria's central bank has ordered commercial banks to freeze all accounts tied to people and companies linked to the ousted regime of former President Bashar al-Assad ...

A few weeks later, Mr al-Shaibani resurfaced in Damascus in the cabinet of Syria’s new interim government. On January 15th he made an official visit to Turkey, where he had lived for over a ...

Syria's defence minister said Wednesday that Damascus was open to talks with Kurdish-led forces on their integration into the national army but stood ready to use force should negotiations fail.

DAMASCUS, Syria — The mother of American journalist Austin Tice, who has been missing in Syria since 2012, said Monday during a visit to the Syrian capital that the incoming Trump administration ...

John McCain. Trump’s hatred for the Arizona Republican was so intense that in 2019 when the president prepared to visit to Japan, the White House asked the Navy to move the USS John McCain ...