Despite Syrian President Bashar Assad's ouster last month in a lightning insurgency, the country's dire economic conditions ...

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and Expatriate Affairs, Ayman Safadi, held meetings Wednesday with foreign and Arab counterparts and UN officials during his participation in the 55th ...

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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,” ...

In 2020, McCain's widow, Cindy McCain, endorsed Joe Biden in his campaign to unseat Trump. Mr Biden later appointed her as US ambassador to a United Nations food agency. Jimmy McCain is not the ...

Despite protest over Syria's more "Islamic" curriculum changes, there are parallel priorities, observers say. After 14 years of war, millions of children remain out of school, and schools need to ...

A fighter of the the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army faction watches a plume of smoke erupt from ... [+] bombardment at a position near the Tishrin Dam in the vicinity of Manbij, in the east ...

BRUSSELS, Jan 20 (Reuters) - The European Union is considering a step-by-step suspension of multiple economic sanctions targeting Syria as it seeks to support the country’s transition ...

Speaking to Reuters at the Defence Ministry in Damascus, Murhaf Abu Qasra said the leadership of the Kurdish fighters, known as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), was procrastinating in its ...