For the first time in more than a decade and a half, Syria is close to getting its full sovereignty back. Despite occasional flare-ups of violence and lingering skepticism in the West that Syrian ...

Washington cannot impose democracy in Syria, nor should it try to. But it can endorse Syria’s territorial unity while insisting that unity without minority rights is a recipe for more instability.

Around 1,000 US troops are stationed in Syria, the Wall Street Journal reported, and are mainly co-stationed with Kurdish-led ...

On September 2, 2025, the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) issued its widely anticipated Final Rule “Relaxing Export Controls for Syria” (the “BIS Rule”) that ...

Washington is betting on the new Syrian government to unify the country by force.

A Kurdish force that helped defeat the Islamic State is collapsing as the Trump administration turns to back the new Syrian ...

Questions have emerged over the fate of thousands of Islamic State prisoners in northeastern Syria after government forces ...

The United States, Israel and Syria announced Tuesday that senior Israeli and Syrian officials met in Paris under U.S. auspices, marking a renewed diplomatic push that includes plans for closer ...

Syria has entered a pivotal phase in its economic history following the official announcement that the United States has repealed sanctions imposed under what was known as the Caesar Act. The move is ...

The United States said it launched an operation Wednesday that could move thousands of Islamic State group jihadists from ...

Undoubtedly, some in Washington believe the Trump administration should have stood up for the Kurds more strongly than it did ...

The Kurdish people have been the strongest and most reliable allies of the United States in the Middle East. Kurds fought bravely alongside U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria and ...