Despite Syrian President Bashar Assad's ouster last month in a lightning insurgency, the country's dire economic conditions haven't changed.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Executive director of the World Food Programme Cindy McCain speaks with the Associated Press in Damascus ...

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WFP chief Cindy McCain said Syria’s struggle with hunger is a national and regional security issue, especially as the country goes through a critical transition period. “What’s at stake here ...

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and Expatriate Affairs, Ayman Safadi, held meetings Wednesday with foreign and Arab counterparts and UN officials during his participation in the 55th session of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

People from near and far packed nearly a full block to see the fireworks display Friday evening at Somerset Inc.’s space-themed 30th annual Fire & Ice Festival in Somerset. The stellar light show started off with the theme from the hit 1960s show “Lost in Space” before moving into classic sci-fi music and ending with hit rock songs such as Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now.

In 2020, McCain's widow, Cindy McCain, endorsed Joe Biden in his campaign to unseat Trump. Mr Biden later appointed her as US ambassador to a United Nations food agency. Jimmy McCain is not the ...

That in turn could defuse tensions across the wider Middle East, where the war has stoked conflict in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iraq ... able to bring it in at scale,” said Cindy McCain, World Food Program executive ...

Despite protest over Syria's more "Islamic" curriculum changes, there are parallel priorities, observers say. After 14 years of war, millions of children remain out of school, and schools need to ...

ANKARA, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Turkey has emerged as one of the most influential power brokers in Syria after rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad last month, ending his family's brutal five-decade rule.

bombardment at a position near the Tishrin Dam in the vicinity of Manbij, in the east of Syria's northern Aleppo province, on January 10, 2025 amidst ongoing battles with the Kurdish-led Syrian ...

Davos-Syria's economy will be open for foreign investment, foreign minister says Davoscategory· January 22, 2025 European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Wednesday she hopes a ...