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

As Turkey builds its power and influence, its opposition to – and agitation against – Israel is continuing unabated.

SDF commander Mazloum Abdi confirmed he is in direct contact with Turkish officials and is open to meeting President Recep ...

Mazloum Abdi, leader of Kurdish forces in northeast Syria, announced contact with Turkey, signaling a potential diplomatic ...

Washington’s partners should build on the momentum sparked by Trump’s May 13 announcement and expedite sanctions relief to ...

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 CONVERSATION) President Donald Trump announced while in Saudi Arabia on May 14, 2025, that the United States would lift ...

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

Growing partnership. The head of Turkey's National Intelligence Organization, Ibrahim Kalin, met on Tuesday with the Syrian ...

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

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

says it was an impetus that “significantly transformed Turkey-Saudi relations." Their interests aligned in a post-Assad Syria, so the two shifted “from rivalry to pragmatic cooperation ...