Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa said his government aims to restore ties with the United States in the coming days but has not yet had any contact with the Trump administration, according to an interview with The Economist. Al-Sharaa, declared Syria’s head of state last week, also...

The Kremlin said on Monday that Russia is continuing to talk to the Syrian authorities about various subjects, including the fate of Moscow’s two military bases in the country. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov travelled to Damascus last week for the first talks with...

Syria’s interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa will visit Turkey on Tuesday on his second international visit since the toppling of Bashar al-Assad in December, the Turkish presidency said. Al-Sharaa “will pay a visit to Ankara on Tuesday at the invitation of our President Recep Tayyip...

A car bomb on Monday killed 20 people, mostly women farm workers, in the northern Syrian city of Manbij where Kurdish forces are battling Turkey-backed groups, state media reported. Citing White Helmet rescuers, SANA news agency said there had been a “massacre” on a local road, with...