Sunni regional powerhouses Turkey and Saudi Arabia have had a complicated and often contentious relationship over the years.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Mazloum Abdi, commander-in-chief of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), revealed on ...

Turkey, Syria, and Jordan have formed a joint unit in Damascus to more effectively combat the Islamic State. This new ...

For months, many Syrians and Syria watchers had worried that the United States might never lift its sanctions. Washington first imposed sanctions on Syria in 1979, when it declared its regime to be a ...

The U.S. flag has been hoisted outside of the long-shuttered ambassador’s residence in Damascus. It's a sign of growing ties ...

Thomas Barrack, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey who was also appointed as special envoy for Syria, described in a post on X​ ...

President Tayyip Erdogan welcomed the lifting of U.S. and EU sanctions on Syria during a meeting with Syrian President Ahmed ...

Turkey is repositioning itself as a key regional and global power by mediating conflicts, strengthening ties across the ...

President Donald Trump announced while in Saudi Arabia on May 14, 2025, that the United States would lift sanctions on Syria. The turnaround was a huge victory for the government of Syrian President ...

Post-PKK Kurdish politics can be transformative because resolution of the Kurdish issue requires a reimagination of Turkish ...

He's a former al-Qaeda member, but on Wednesday, new Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa stood on the world stage with President ...

Syria has welcomed the move by the Trump administration to ease sanctions, calling it a “positive step” to ease humanitarian ...