After Assad’s fall, al-Baghdadi was finally able to return. Like many, he was euphoric and hoped it would pave the way for ...

DAMASCUS: Samir al-Baghdad grabbed his pickax and walked up a wobbly set of stairs made of cinderblocks and rubble. He is ...

warning Syria’s neighbors that its food and economic crisis is also a crisis of security. “Hunger does not breed good will,” Cindy McCain said in an interview during her first visit to Damascus.

“Syria now is free, and the Syrian people are ... The organization’s executive director, Cindy McCain, made the case for reshaping the food system, and experts from the private sector backed ...

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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,” ...

Photo: Photo by Maurizio Martorana for the Wall Street Journal Cindy McCain, the executive director of the United Nations’ World Food Programme, says aid workers in Gaza are seeing "smooth ...

Syria's new administration does not seek bloodshed with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the country's Kurdish population, de facto Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said on Thursday.

BRUSSELS — European countries look set to agree to ease sanctions on Syria as a way to support the country’s political transition, influence its new Islamist leaders and diminish Russia’s ...

Focus on Islamic teachings in police training raises concern among some Syrians Police trainers say this is to instil a sense of morality in recruits Bashar al-Assad's security forces had a ...

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