The government faces a dilemma over what to do with civil-war-era prisons and detention camps that hold thousands of ISIS fighters and tens of thousands of their family members.
A former leader of Al Qaeda has convinced Washington that he’s a liberal reformer. Now comes the hard part of following ...
Reflecting on Sharaa's performance just ahead of the one-year mark, the White House official cited Trump's December 1 Truth ...
Once a member of al Qaeda and the Islamic State and now leading Syria’s fragile transition since toppling the Bashar Assad regime, Ahmed al-Sharaa is ready to take to the global center stage at the ...
The United States has withdrawn at least 500 of its 2,000 troops from Syria in recent weeks and is reconsolidating its on-the-ground presence from eight bases to just one. Analysts are divided over ...
The new government has pledged to unify Syria after overthrowing the Assad dictatorship. One of its biggest challenges is persistent sectarian violence. By Christina Goldbaum Ben Hubbard Raja ...
The first American ground troops entered Syria in late 2015 to fight the Islamic State, also known as ISIS. The U.S. previously said there were 900 troops in Syria. The Pentagon had been ...
The leaders of Israel and Syria have agreed to a ceasefire following recent Israeli airstrikes on the Syrian capital, a U.S. envoy said Friday, as he urged all sides in war-torn Syria to lay down ...
The woman, a member of Syria 's Alawite religious minority, was walking home on a sunny July day in her town on the ...