DAMASCUS, Syria — Top U.S. diplomats arrived in Damascus on Friday to meet with the new Syrian leadership, marking the first such visit since President Bashar Assad was ousted earlier this month. The ...

Barbara Leaf, Washington's top diplomat for the Middle East, made the comments after her meeting with Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus -- the first formal mission to Syria's capital by United States ...

A Syrian family that survived a 2013 sarin gas attack that killed hundreds of people near the country’s capital, Damascus, ...

The first U.S. diplomats to visit Syria since President Bashar Assad's ouster earlier this month are in Damascus to hold ...

Assad, old alliances have crumbled, and global powers are figuring out their relationships with Syria’s new de facto leaders.

The Pentagon announced the US currently has “approximately 2,000” troops in Syria, more than double the previously disclosed ...

The toppling of Bashar Assad has raised tentative hopes that Syrians might live peacefully and as equals after a half century ...

The visits came a day after Sharaa — also known by his nom de guerre, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani — met with Turkish Foreign ...

I didn’t believe I was back. December 8, 4am: We made our way from Beirut to the Masnaa border with Syria because reports were coming in that Damascus had fallen. When we reached the crossing ...

Since 2011, the weaponization of regional and global supply chains through economic sanctions has devastated Syria’s economic ...

After the fall of Syria’s long-standing Baath regime, the country’s Christian community is embracing a new sense of hope as it prepares for Christmas in the capital Damascus. Many are ...

In their meeting in Damascus on Sunday, Turkiye’s Hakan Fidan and Syria’s de facto ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa stressed the need for unity and stability in Syria, as they called for the lifting of ...