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The UK government has said it is lifting sanctions against a dozen Syrian entities, including government departments and ...

President Donald Trump appears to want Turkey to play a bigger role in the region, despite its poor human rights record toward the Kurds and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s long-standing antipathy ...

The British government lifted sanctions against a dozen Syrian entities, including government departments and media outlets, the Foreign Office said Thursday.

The UK has removed sanctions on several Syrian entities, including government departments and media outlets. This follows the ...

I f the black basalt landscape does not immediately point to Suwayda’s idiosyncrasy, the fluttering Venezuelan flags do. The ...

Sharaa has urged the United States to lift sanctions and alluded to the possibility of future military support from Russia and Türkiye.Over a 45-minute interview with The New York Times, al-Sharaa ...

Syria is home to a shrinking Catholic minority, whose numbers fell from around one million in 2011 to fewer than 300,000 ...

On the road to Damascus, Saul of Tarsus, who we would later come to know as St. Paul, saw a blinding light and from it heard ...

Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) said he is “cautiously optimistic” after he met with new Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa. Mills ...

Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani confirmed last week that Iraq had extended a formal invitation to al-Sharaa to attend the May 17 summit, following a previously unannounced meeting between the ...

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa said that his government is holding negotiations with Russia and Turkey on the future of ...