The EU led the way on pledging aid for Syria on Monday at a donor drive in Brussels – but the call for funding to help the war-torn country after Bashar al-Assad’s ouster risked falling short of last year as US support dries up. Western and regional powers are desperate to steer Syria...

Syrian troops exchanged fire with Lebanese soldiers and armed groups in northeast Lebanon overnight and into Monday in a new round of clashes along the border. There have been frictions along the mountainous frontier in the months since opposition forces toppled Syria’s Bashar al-Assad,...

Germany is pledging a further 300 million euros ($326 million) in aid for Syrians through the United Nations and select organizations, said Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Monday, ahead of an EU-led donor conference in Brussels. More than half of the funds provided will benefit the...

The German newspaper Bild revealed that German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser is seeking to negotiate an agreement with Syrian interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa to return hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees residing in Germany to their homeland. An official spokesperson for the...