But as a new government takes shape in Damascus, Syrians and foreign observers alike worry about how inclusive, ...

Damascus: Renewed tensions between Israel and Syria may flare up. Syria's new leader, Abu Mohammed al-Julani, has asked the United States to pressurise Israel to withdraw from the buffer zone in Syria ...

Washington needs a plan to create conditions for future U.S. investment to stabilize Syria — and to make sure Russia doesn’t ...

Five years ago, we warned that a snap decision to depart Syria — abandoning the U.S. Kurdish-led partner force that has fought the Islamic State in Syria for the ...

Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa congratulated U.S. President Donald Trump on his inauguration in a statement on ...

America has blacklisted roughly 700 people and firms in Syria. Other sanctions take aim at the country itself. In 2019 Congress passed the Caesar Act (named after a Syrian army defector who ...

Inclusivity and moderation are indeed immediate priorities for Syria, but a big national vote is not. Democracy does not ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is likely to urge Trump to withdraw U.S. forces and let Ankara handle Syria. While this might align with Trump’s “America First” policy, it could destabilize ...

Post-Assad Syria will likely become a sanctuary for terrorism, and the United States and its allies will need dependable local partners to help combat it. The fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime ...

Syria’s future will be determined by contending domestic factions and surrounding states like Turkey, which have far more at stake than America. The Islamic State’s power has been broken.

The fall of longtime strongman Bashar al-Assad has created a power vacuum that threatens some of the United States' ...