Turkey threatened Tuesday to launch a military operation against Kurdish forces in Syria unless they accepted Ankara鈥檚 conditions for a 鈥榖loodless鈥� transition after the fall of strongman president Bashar al-Assad...
Ministers from Syria鈥檚 transitional government urged the United States to lift its sanctions on Damascus during their first visit to Qatar since overthrowing president Bashar al-Assad.
Syria said on Saturday the country鈥檚 main airport in Damascus would resume international flights starting next week after such commercial trips were halted following last month鈥檚 ouster of president Bashar al-Assad.
The European Union backs a peaceful, inclusive transition in Syria, top French and German diplomats said on Friday on a Damascus visit to meet with new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa.
Syria has imposed new restrictions on the entry of Lebanese citizens, two security sources from Lebanon said on Friday, following what the Lebanese army said was a border skirmish with armed Syrians.
Syrian security forces are conducting a security sweep in the city of Homs, state media reported on Thursday, with a monitor saying targets include protest organisers from the Alawite minority of the former president...
About half of school-age children in Syria are missing out on education after nearly 14 years of civil war, Save the Children said on Monday, calling for 鈥榠mmediate action鈥�.
Syria鈥檚 new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa told Al Arabiya TV on Sunday that elections could take four years, noted the importance of ties with Iran and Russia, and called for the United States to lift sanctions.
Syria鈥檚 new authorities have arrested nearly 300 people, including informants, pro-regime fighters and former soldiers, in a crackdown on loyalists to ousted former president Bashar al-Assad, a monitor said on Sunday.
Iran鈥檚 top diplomat warned Friday against 鈥榙estructive interference鈥� in Syria鈥檚 future and said decisions should lie solely with the country鈥檚 people, writing in Chinese state media as he visited Beijing.
Syria鈥檚 new authorities launched an operation in a stronghold of ousted president Bashar al-Assad on Thursday, with a war monitor saying three gunmen affiliated with the former government were killed.
Director Yevgeniya Berkovich and writer Svetlana Petriychuk were sentenced to six years in prison in July for a play about women marrying jihadists in Syria...
A key Syrian rescue group and an activist said on Wednesday a burial site outside Damascus was likely a mass grave for detainees held under former president Bashar al-Assad and fighters killed in the civil war.
Syria鈥檚 new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa told Lebanese Druze leaders on Sunday that his country would not negatively interfere in Lebanon and would respect its neighbour鈥檚 sovereignty.
Qatar reopened its embassy in Damascus on Saturday, 13 years after it was closed early in Syria鈥檚 civil conflict, as foreign governments seek to establish ties with the country鈥檚 new rulers....
FOR years, discussions of Syria鈥檚 Balkanization have lingered as a realistic option that could be imposed on the country one day. The recent political upheaval 鈥� marked by the ousting of president Bashar al-Assad...
Kurdish fighters in northern Syria are increasingly under pressure from Turkish-backed armed groups while also fearing the new authorities in Damascus will upend their hard-won autonomy.
The first commercial flight since the ouster of president Bashar al-Assad took off from Damascus airport on Wednesday, offering Syrians a glimmer of hope after years of war and decades of oppression...
Syria鈥檚 new rulers stepped up engagement on Tuesday with countries that deemed ousted president Bashar al-Assad a pariah, with the French flag raised at the embassy for the first time in over a decade...
I DO not know anyone who was not shocked by the lightning speed with which Damascus fell to expensively armed jihadist militias last weekend...
THE fall of authoritarian leaders in the contemporary world, particularly in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Syria, highlights a common and broader disconnect between the priorities of ruling elites and the aspirations of their people. While all three cases are situated in Greater Asia, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh experienced British colonial rule, whereas Syria was under...
Bashar al-Assad said on Monday that his departure from Syria was not planned and that Moscow requested his evacuation from a military base that was under attack, in the former president鈥檚 first statement since his ouster.
As Islamist-led rebel forces ousts Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, the Israeli prime minister ordered troops to seize the demilitarised zone between the two countries鈥� forces on the Golan Heights...
Bangladesh on Sunday unequivocally condemns the illegal act of aggression by Israel during the moment of critical transition in Syria...
More than 7,600 Syrian migrants crossed the Turkish border to return home in the five days after the fall of Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad, Turkey鈥檚 interior minister said Sunday....
Turkish defence minister Yasar Guler said on Sunday that his country was ready to provide military support to Syria鈥檚 new Islamist-led government set up by rebels who overthrew Bashar al-Assad if it requested it.
US secretary of state Antony Blinken鈥檚 comment on 鈥榙irect contact鈥� with the HTS rebels came despite the United States having designated the group as terrorists in 2018...
Top diplomats from eight Arab countries, meeting in Jordan on Saturday, called for a peaceful transition in Syria with UN and Arab League support following Bashar al-Assad鈥檚 ouster...
A Syria war monitor said Israel launched strikes early Saturday targeting military sites in Damascus and its countryside, in the latest such raids since rebels brought down Bashar al-Assad almost a week ago.
Thousands of jubilant people rallied in cities across Syria, including at a landmark mosque in the capital Damascus, to celebrate during the first Friday prayers since the ouster of president Bashar al-Assad.