Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticised Friedrich Merz, her successor as leader of the country's conservatives, on Thursday for pushing through a bill ... and the utility of vaccines ...

Assad’s ouster has seen his Iranian allies end crucial oil supplies. Meanwhile, many economic sanctions that initially ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

About 2,000 U.S. troops remain both in the northeast and at a remote base in southern Syria. “Everyone was waiting for Trump to come to power, and the issue needs some time between the U.S ...

Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said Monday organising elections could take up to five years, the week after he was appointed interim president and less than two months after ousting Bashar al-Assad ...

In their first meeting, Syria’s interim president ... a Turkish state jet and was welcomed on the runway by Turkey’s energy and natural resources minister, Alparslan Bayraktar.

The Syrian whistleblower known as Caesar ... the crimes of Bashar al-Assad’s regime came from the highest levels of power to ensure that executions were carried out,” he said.

in his first foreign trip as Syrian leader, in a sign of the major shifts under way in regional alliances. Mr Sharaa assumed power as transitional president after leading a rebel campaign that ...

ANKARA, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he and Syria's newly appointed president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, had discussed in Ankara on Tuesday steps to be taken against Kurdish ...

Tehran supplied military support, financial aid and strategic backing that, alongside Russian help, kept the Syrian president in power. Iranian-backed armed factions played a decisive role in key ...