US Secretary of State Antony Blinken landed in Jordan on Thursday at the start of a crisis tour following the overthrow of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, an AFP journalist on his plane said. The outgoing top US diplomat will meet Jordan’s King Abdullah II and the foreign minister in...

The American citizen found near the Syrian capital Damascus is named Travis Timmerman, and is not missing US journalist Austin Tice as initially reported. Speaking to Al Arabiya on Thursday, Timmerman said he had come to Syria on a religious trip seven months ago, adding that he had been...

A regional cooperation organization in East Africa on Thursday commended a landmark agreement between Somalia and Ethiopia that ended nearly a year of tensions following talks in the Turkish capital. Workneh Gebeyehu, executive secretary of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development...

A pair of lawmakers in the US House of Representatives urged the Biden administration Wednesday to implement a "deliberate and phased" lifting of sweeping sanctions on Syria after the end of more than five decades of Assad family rule. Reps. Joe Wilson and Brendan Boyle said in a letter to...