President Donald Trump declared in his first term that the Islamic State group was defeated and that U.S. troops would leave Syria. This weekend, a gunman linked to the Islamic State group killed two ...

BEIRUT (AP) — President Donald Trump’s announcement that the U.S. will ease sanctions on Syria could eventually facilitate the country’s recovery from years of civil war and transform the lives of ...

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In 2013, Russian firm Soyuzneftegaz signed a deal to explore for oil and gas in Syrian waters, but the project was dropped ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — When a dozen firefighters showed up within minutes to douse a mattress that accidentally caught fire on the roof of his apartment building, Mohamed Bassem Said was gobsmacked. Said, ...

Over a decade of devastating conflict has left communities across Syria littered with explosive remnants of war, including an estimated 324,000 pieces of unexploded ordnance. Mohammed, 15, learned ...

In December, a band of rebel groups led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham shocked the world by ousting Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. HTS’s leader, Ahmed al-Shara, created a government to oversee the ...

Once the war began in 2011, exploring Syria freely became nearly impossible. On one trip in 2013, the group’s bus was shot at. Two years later, during a hike in a nature reserve in central Hama ...

Assad, the brother of the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad known by critics as the \"butcher of Hama\" for crushing an Islamist uprising in the city in 1982 before unsuccessfully challenging for ...