Qatar is planning to help finance a massive boost in public sector wages promised by Syria's new government, a U.S. official and a senior diplomat said, vital assistance to the new Islamist rulers in Damascus a month after they toppled Bashar al-Assad.

Syria’s new foreign minister has met with his Qatari counterpart and Qatar’s prime minister in Doha on Sunday.

Could the return of Qatar Airways to Damascus tempt other international airlines to put the Syrian capital back on the route map?

The first international commercial flight since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad has landed at the Damascus airport arriving from Qatar.

Qatar assisted in reconstructing the airport, which was damaged by years of conflict. Meanwhile, a Royal Jordanian Airlines flight also evaluated the airport's technical condition. This marks a new chapter for Syria,

Two electricity-generating ships from Türkiye and Qatar are heading to Syria to boost energy supplies hit by damage to infrastructure during Bashar

Syria's new foreign minister has met with Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, for talks in Doha, as the de facto authorities under Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) aim to establish diplomatic ties with regional and global governments.

The national airline of Qatar has announced that it will resume weekly flights to Syria 13 years after cancelling operations. Qatar Airways will offer three weekly flights between Qatar and Damascus, Syria, from Tuesday (7 January). In 2011, flights by the carrier to and from Damascus and Aleppo were cancelled amid Syria’s civil war.

Saudi Arabia and others are overlooking the new leadership’s jihadist past, hoping to gain an advantage on rivals in the strategically positioned country.

Qatar has been a staunch supporter of Syria’s erstwhile Opposition long before the fall of the now ousted president Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December. When rebel forces from Hay’at

The Qatar Airways flight landed at Damascus International Airport. Many passengers were Syrian nationals coming come for the first time in more than a decade.