Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa arrived in the United States on Saturday for a landmark official visit, his country’s state news agency reported, a day after Washington removed him from a terrorism blacklist. Al-Sharaa, whose forces ousted longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad late last...

The British government on Tuesday removed “Hayat Tahrir al-Sham” (HTS), the group which spearheaded the Syrian opposition alliance that helped oust president Bashar al-Assad, from its list of banned terrorist organizations. HTS, a former al-Qaeda affiliate, was proscribed in 2017,...

The US special envoy for Syria on Monday called for the US House of Representatives to do its part to repeal sanctions on Syria dating back to the years of the Assad regime. “The U.S. Senate has already demonstrated foresight by voting to repeal the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act – a...

There was no mistaking the reek of death that rose along the Syrian desert highway four nights a week for nearly two years. It was the smell of thousands of bodies being trucked from one mass grave to another, secret location. Drivers were forbidden to leave their cabs. Mechanics and...