US President Donald Trump officialised a pivot in US-Syria relations on Monday by lifting most sanctions on a "transformed" post-Assad Syria. Israel has said it is interested in normalising ties with Syria as well as Lebanon in an expansion of the Abraham Accords, a move that would mark a...

Israel said Monday it is “interested” in striking peace agreements with neighboring Lebanon and Syria, a potentially historic shift in the region after decades of war and animosity. With Syria under a new leadership after the fall of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad and Lebanon’s...

When Bashar Al-Assad ruled Syria, his regime was widely accused of profiting from the production and trafficking of Captagon, an illicit synthetic drug that is most commonly abused by users in the Middle East.  Despite the current government’s hostility to the trade, the country...

What the Syrians had feared has come to pass: A cowardly suicide bombing has struck a church in the heart of Damascus. Syrians had long harbored a latent sense that one or more entities would not look kindly upon the revolution’s victory and that it would do everything in its power to...