Syria's transitional leader is a former jihadist. Can he help stabilize the region? Ahmed al-Sharaa founded the Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda, but is now advocating unity.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Residents walk in the market on the first day of Ramadan, the holy month for Muslims, in the old city of ...

Italy has earmarked some 68 million euros ($73.20 million) to finance humanitarian projects and rebuild infrastructure in Syria, Rome's foreign minister told lawmakers on Thursday, saying it was ...

That unleashed a spree of revenge killings there that left hundreds of Alawites dead. Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa told Reuters he dispatched his forces the next day to halt the ...

On December 8, Syria appeared to turn a page on dictatorship. After 14 years of brutality under former president Bashar al-Assad, the country ostensibly stood at the threshold of liberty.

US Gave Syria List of Conditions for Partial Sanctions Relief, Sources Say By Humeyra Pamuk and Maya Gebeily WASHINGTON/BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United States has handed Syria a list of conditions ...

Following the reports of bombings in Daraa, the Israeli army said that it carried out air strikes on Syria in response to incoming fire from across the demarcation line. "[Israeli army] troops ...

(Illustration photo by Dosseman / CC BY-SA 4.0) Syrian authorities ended military operations in western Syria March 10. The offensive, launched four days earlier in response to attacks by Assad ...

The Central Bank of the UAE, on Thursday, unveiled the new symbol for the national currency in its physical and digital forms. The symbol was derived from the English name of the dirham to serve ...

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