The UAE’s interventionist foreign policy, backing Assad in Syria and the RSF in Sudan, has backfired, damaging its global reputation, alienating allies, and undermining US interests.

Tensions increased in southern Syria as Israeli warplanes bombed the Ministry of Defence in Damascus, areas around the presidential palace, and villages in As-Suwayda on 16 July 2025, killing at least ...

He said the Trump administration was in "constant talks" with Syria and Israel. A defiant Sharaa said, according to a transcript from Reuters: “We are not among those who fear war.

A U.S. Congressman has made a brief visit to Syria where he discussed with the country’s interim president the return of the body of an American aid worker who was taken hostage and later ...

Per capita gross domestic product is one-quarter of what it was before the war. At Syria’s current growth rate, it won’t recoup its losses until 2080, the United Nations says.

Before the war, Christians made up around 10% of Syria's population of 22 million. But their numbers have shrunk significantly during the 14-year conflict, mainly through emigration.

Before the civil war erupted in 2011, Syria was self-sufficient in wheat, producing an average of 4.1 million tonnes annually. Nearly 14 years of conflict have since crippled production and devastated ...

MARAAT AL-NUMAN, Syria (AP) — A contractor digging into the earth where the rubble of a destroyed house had been cleared away in northern Syria stumbled across a surprise: the remains of an ...

I never imagined I’d return to Syria — especially not after my family and I left in 2004, and certainly not after the civil war. What began in 2011 as peaceful demonstrations — part of a ...

DUBAI — Malek Jandali may only have been alive for four decades but the award-winning composer insists he feels ancient, having revived some of the oldest melodies from his war-torn Syrian ...