President Donald Trump’s advisers are proposing that he grant Syria a temporary waiver from one crippling set of sanctions as well as ease restrictions on businesses as a first step in his pledge to e ...

Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, the former militant commander who led the overthrow, says he is working to build an ...

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Many in Syria want to enshrine remnants of their recent history, not only to remember it, but as a cautionary tale.

Israeli troops "will stay and hold the ground in areas we've already fought for longer," an IDF spokesperson told Newsweek.

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For one thing, essentials like housing, clean water and electricity are patchy; according to a un poll of refugees in the ...

At the Sayyida Zeinab shrine, rituals of faith unfold: worshippers kneel in prayer, visitors raise their palms skyward or ...

The top U.N. official for Syria is warning of the “real dangers of renewed conflict and deeper confrontation” in the ...

Concern over the country splitting apart may be headed off by an attempt at national reconciliation through two commissions ...

There was a time when Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to have all the cards. The Palestinian Authority was largely passive, the ...