- Despite the monumental challenges ahead, the mood in Syria is optimistic and hopeful, says International Crisis Group’s Nanar Hawach - Reconstruction on a massive scale cannot happen until US sanctions on Syria are lifted, says Hawach - ‘There is this declared commitment to re-establish...

The transitional government’s troops carried out mop-up operations in the settlements of Akkum, Bizaah, Haveiq, El Jurud and El Fadiliyah, where armed gangs are active  Syria’s new authorities conducted an operation against smugglers and supporters of the previous government, the...

Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa received an invitation from French President Emmanuel Macron to visit France in the coming weeks, the Syrian president's office said in a statement on Wednesday. The two also discussed the economic sanctions imposed on the Syrian people in a phone call,...

French President Emmanuel Macron congratulated his Syrian counterpart Ahmed al-Sharaa on Wednesday on assuming office, reaffirming Paris’s commitment to lifting sanctions on Damascus. The felicitations came during a phone call al-Sharaa received from Macron, according to a statement from the...