Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani will on Thursday be the first Arab leader to visit the Syrian capital Damascus since the December overthrow of former President Bashar al-Assad, sources have told Al Jazeera. The Syrian presidency confirmed on Wednesday that the country’s...

The State of Qatar welcomed the steps aimed at restructuring the sisterly Syrian state and enhancing consensus and unity among all Syrian parties, paving the way for consolidating civil peace, security, stability and building a state of law, institutions, development and prosperity. The...

Syria’s military operations administration announced Wednesday the appointment of Ahmed al-Sharaa as transitional president, the repeal of the 2012 Constitution and the dissolution of the former regime’s parliament, army and security agencies. It came in landmark moves in the wake of the...

The Syrian military command announces that Ahmed al-Sharaa has assumed the presidency of the Syrian Arab Republic. Colonel Hassan Abdul Ghani, the spokesman for the Military Operations Command, which overthrew the Assad regime, said in a statement announcing the...