Syria's reconstruction and emergence from isolation depends on rolling back a thicket of sanctions that were five decades in ...

A portrait of ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad is taken off the wall of a regime prison in Damascus, Syria. (Lorenzo Tugnoli for The Washington Post) The Syrian regime’s collapse came more ...

Dr H.A. Hellyer, senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute discussed the fate of Christians in the new ...

The number of US troops in Syria has regularly surged higher than the Pentagon has publicly disclosed since at least 2020, and in recent months increased to more than double the roughly 900 troops ...

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Iran had provided crucial support to Assad throughout Syria's nearly 14-year civil war, which erupted after he launched a violent crackdown on a popular uprising against his family's decades-long ...

This move paved the way for a new international-regional security dynamic at the expense of the Syrian state, its sovereignty ...

U.S. officials said they pressed the transitional government established by rebels to respect the rights of Syria’s numerous ethnic and religious sects as well as women. They said they received ...

De facto Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa says factions agreed to disband following a meeting with the heads of the groups. Thousands of Syrian families believe their missing loved ones were killed ...

In the Middle East, neither strategists nor governments can reliably foresee how the narrative might shift from one day to the next. The Syrian civil war has endured for nearly 14 years, claiming ...

As Israeli aggression in Gaza, Lebanon, and Post-Assad Syria deepens human suffering and regional instability, and amid ...

The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said its forces had conducted an airstrike that killed ISIS leader Abu Yusif in eastern Syria. One other ISIS operative was also killed in the strike that ...