Firefighting efforts have been hampered by the presence of mines and unexploded ordnance left over from the civil war, as the country grapples with the worst drought in decades.

Thomas J. Barrack Jr., the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, says Washington is facilitating the discussions and prioritizing ...

During Syria’s civil war, the Islamic State captured a large chunk of eastern Syrian and ruled over it for years. A U.S.-led international coalition, partnering with a Kurdish-led Syrian militia, ...

President Trump signed an executive order this week lifting most sanctions on Syria. Ahead of that action, U.S. officials ...

With developing nations crushed by unaffordable borrowing and Washington on the sidelines, some leaders are brokering debt ...

In a major policy shift, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday lifting most American sanctions on Syria. The move comes after the fall of the Assad regime and the rise of a ...

U.S. officials said sanctions against targets such as its central bank would end, but they would remain on Syria’s former ...

The fall of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has opened a window for wealthy Gulf countries to expand their influence as ...

President Trump on Monday signed an executive order dismantling a series of sanctions on Syria, providing more relief to the ...

The U.S. government is investigating claims by a former senior Syrian official that Marine veteran and freelance journalist Austin Tice was killed in Syria in 2013 at the order of then-President ...

Marc and Debra Tice, the parents of Austin Tice, who is missing in Syria, speak during a press conference in Beirut, Lebanon, Dec. 4, 2018. (Bilal Hussein/The Associated Press) The U.S. government ...

U.S. officials are investigating an uncorroborated account from a high-ranking former Syrian official that American freelance ...