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...

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...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Sunday said Ankara will not tolerate terrorism in Syria under any circumstances. "There is no way we will tolerate the continuation of terrorism in Syria," Fidan told a joint news conference with his Qatari counterpart Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al...

Palestinian militant group Hamas handed over three Israeli hostages on Saturday, and dozens of Palestinian prisoners and detainees were released in exchange, in the latest stage of a truce aimed at ending the 15-month war in Gaza. Ofer Kalderon, a French-Israeli dual national, and Yarden...