Syria's foreign minister has told Saudi Arabian officials that the new leadership in Damascus wants to set up a government involving all parts of Syrian society following the overthrow of Bashar Al-Assad last month. Minister Asaad Hassan Al-Shibani was making the first foreign trip by a...

Germany on Friday called for international efforts to hold the perpetrators of the Assad regime accountable for their crimes, according to press reports. The lives of the victims of the regime of long-time ruler Bashar al-Assad who died there cannot be brought back, said Foreign Minister...

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan on Thursday received his Syrian counterpart Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani at the headquarters of the Saudi foreign ministry in Riyadh, according to an Al Arabiya correspondent. Al-Shaibani arrived in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday alongside...

Syria’s minister of information in the country’s transitional government told AFP he is working towards a free press and committed to “freedom of expression”, after decades of tight control under the country’s former rulers. “We are working to consolidate freedoms of the press...