(DAMASCUS, SYRIA) -- He's a former al-Qaeda insurgent who fought against U.S. forces in Iraq and served time in the infamous Abu Ghraib prison. Still, on Wednesday, new Syrian President Ahmad al ...

(CNN) — When President Donald Trump announced the lifting of US sanctions on Syria during his trip to the Middle East this week, it marked a major policy shift that could reshape the region and ...

After spending more than two decades fighting the Taliban, al Qaeda, ISIS, the Houthis, and countless other hydra-headed villains of the global jihadist insurgency, squandering trillions of ...

Baghdad last hosted an Arab League summit in 2012, during the early stages of the civil war in neighbouring Syria, which in December entered a new chapter with the overthrow of longtime ruler Bashar ...

He spent years in a U.S. prison in Iraq before returning to Syria to join the insurgency against now deposed Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, who fled to Russia with his family, and according to ...

Following the ouster of former President Bashar al-Assad late last year, officials from both State and Treasury had drafted memos and options papers to help guide the government on lifting Syria ...

President Donald Trump met with Syria’s interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa in Saudi Arabia on ... imposed on Syria under former autocrat Bashar Assad.People across Syria cheered in the streets ...

an ex-militant who led the rebel alliance that ousted Bashar al-Assad, and who once was at the helm of a Qaeda branch before moderating his image. Aboard Air Force One on his way to Qatar ...

“I will be ordering the cessation of sanctions against Syria in order to give them a chance at greatness,” Mr. Trump said in a speech in Saudi Arabia. “The sanctions were brutal and crippling, and ...

Sharaa led Hayat Tahrir al-Sham — a group linked to al-Qaeda — which overthrew Bashar al-Assad's government. Sharaa was named head of a new interim government in January and has worked since ...

The sanctions were escalated to punish the regime of Bashar al-Assad for its violent repression of people during the Syrian civil war. The sanctions not only froze assets and restricted ...