Turkish peacekeeping forces will continue to help boost the Lebanese army’s capability under a renewed deployment mandate in Lebanon, Turkey’s Defense Ministry said on Thursday. Turkey’s parliament passed a bill on Tuesday to renew the military’s deployment mandates in Syria and Iraq...

Syrian forces said they had surrounded on Wednesday a camp housing a prominent French extremist wanted by his government, sparking clashes at the site according to a monitoring group. The operation in northwest Syria was the new government’s first known assault targeting extremists since...

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...