Youstina Khoury, a Christian nun kidnapped by an earlier iteration of the group now running Syria, has forgiven the former rebels and their leader, the new president of her country. Ahmad Al Shara has ...

The new construction, visible in satellite imagery, suggests an extended presence. Israel says its forces will stay as long ...

Syria's transitional President Ahmed al-Sharaa will visit Saudi Arabia on Sunday, the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya TV reported on ...

Louai Tayara was a member of the National Defence and was arrested on Wednesday 'for not settling his legal status and for carrying undeclared weapons' ...

Egypt has been reticent to engage with Syria's new Islamist rulers, who overthrew the Assad regime in December.

Arab leaders have warmly welcomed Ahmed al-Sharaa as Syria's interim president, with close allies of his deposed predecessor ...

Now, foreign countries are trying to steer Syria’s new de facto leaders toward an inclusive government free of sectarian ...

NICOLE GRAJEWSKI is a Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an Associate ...

In Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa has been named as interim president to lead the transition. Sharaa is head of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, which led the rebel coalition that toppled Bashar al-Assad. On ...

The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions in neighboring Iraq to reconsider their push for U.S. forces ...

A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 ...