The fall of the Assad regime in Syria on December 8, 2024, sent geopolitical shockwaves across Asia, creating an opening for South Korea to engage Syria’s new caretaker government and replace ...

Syria confirms closure of civil war-era desert camp, displaced return home The Rukban displacement camp, which opened and was cut off in the height of the civil war in 2014, housed thousands of ...

In Europe, the process is less complicated. Last month, the European Council lifted sanctions on several Syrian companies operating in key sectors like oil production, agriculture, finance, ...

RAQQA, Syria — Mofida Majthou squatted, holding a detonator affixed to the end of a long wire. More than 1,600 feet away, winding past a cinder-block shack and across an expanse of sand and ...

US believes Syria’s Sharaa at risk of assassination, Trump envoy says US special envoy for Syria Tom Barrack also discusses what’s next for sanctions relief, the country’s relationship with Israel and ...

Islamic State (IS) has been attempting just that, according to more than 20 sources, including security and political officials from Syria, Iraq, the U.S. and Europe, as well as diplomats in the ...

The aftermath of the US airstrike that killed Rakhim Boev in northwest Syria. (CENTCOM on X) The US military killed an Islamic State (IS) commander in an airstrike in northwestern Syria on June 10.

Syrian rebels seized Damascus on Sunday, and long-time President Bashar Assad fled the battle-scarred country amid the stunning collapse of his regime after 13 years of war. Assad and his family ...

An IMF staff team visited Syria for the first time since 2009, to assess the economic and financial conditions in Syria and discuss with the authorities their economic policy and capacity building ...

Syria has carried out its first international bank transaction via the SWIFT system since the outbreak of its 14-year civil war, its central bank governor said on Thursday, a milestone in Syria's ...

Grandi met Syrian families re-entering the country after more than a decade as refugees in neighbouring Lebanon, who he said had “voted with their feet and decided to go back and restart their lives” ...