The Pentagon announced the US currently has “approximately 2,000” troops in Syria, more than double the previously disclosed number of 900, a Defense Department spokesperson said at a press briefing on Thursday.

Senior U.S. diplomats visiting Damascus on Friday met with Syria's de-facto new ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa and held a "good" and "very productive" meeting with him about Syria's political transition and decided to remove a bounty on his head.

Washington is scrapping a long-standing reward for the arrest of Syria's new leader, a senior U.S. diplomat said Friday, following "positive messages" from a first meeting that included a promise

European Union foreign ministers plan to meet in Brussels on Monday to discuss recent developments in Syria and Georgia ... took control of Damascus. Ministers will also deal with the situation ...

The defense forces of the Russia and Iran-backed Assad government have been struggling to stave off the lightning advance of rebel forces.

On December 8, the Syrian army command announced the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s authoritarian rule, marking a seismic turning point for the Middle East. This development follows a swift rebel offensive that culminated in the capture of Damascus,

"On December 15, the withdrawal of part of the personnel of the Russian (diplomatic) representation in Damascus was carried out by a special flight of the Russian Air Force from the Hmeimim airbase" in Syria, the ministry's crisis situations department said on Telegram.

Ahmed Moor thinks about his family in Gaza every day. His uncle has been seeking shelter from the relentless Israeli airstrikes for more than a year, and finding none. He has lost cousins and extended family to sniper fire and bombing. Now, the Palestinian ...

Assad's regime was overthrown continues to astonish political analysts and strategists. Last weekend, a report that went unnoticed revealed that Abkhazia had decided to close down its embassy in Damascus.

The European Union will send an envoy to make contact with the new Syrian leadership, the bloc's top diplomat Kaja Kallas said on Monday. Until recently, Brussels claimed to have no contact with the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS),

MOSCOW, December 16. /TASS/. Thousands of foreign mercenaries killed in Ukraine, the fate of Syrian Kurds, and the impeachment of South Korea's president. These stories topped the headlines in Monday’s newspapers across Russia.

UN special envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen arrived in Damascus on Sunday, his spokesperson said, declining to give details of his agenda.