Syria is fractured by competing armies but who holds power and where may be shifting as the US eyes an exit.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has spoken to Syria’s new leader Ahmad al-Sharaa, the first such top-level contact since ...

U.S. assistance for managing and securing camps in northeastern Syria with Islamic State-linked prisoners "cannot last ...

Turkey seeks to extend its control in Syria, pushing a colonial-style administration while targeting Kurdish forces. It ...

Armed opposition units in Syria launched a large-scale offensive on government troops in the Aleppo and Idlib governorates in late November 2024 ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

From war zone risks to head-scratching tourists, the manipulation of the GPS navigation system by hackers (jamming and ...

Gaza has been decimated by Israeli bombing campaigns and ground assaults since Hamas carried out the October 7 attacks on Israel in 2023, in which more than 1,200 people were killed and 250 were taken ...

In Arabic, Assad means “lion,” although that wasn’t his real name. Hafez, Bashar’s father, had adopted it to look strong. Hasan was born in the northeastern Syrian city of Manbij, 18 years before the ...

Six years ago, at the time of the first Trump administration’s Muslim ban and its initial round of vicious anti-immigrant policies, I visited a refugee ...

Syria’s newly appointed interim president, Ahmed al-Shara, arrived in Saudi Arabia on Sunday for his first foreign trip since ...

President Trump’s reversal on a spending freeze. The White House yesterday walked back President Trump’s order to freeze ...