Trump's Syria policy shift lifts sanctions, aiming to deter Iranian influence and stabilize the region, despite risks of empowering jihadist elements.

Trump also met with Syria's interim president, a former jihadist who until recently had a $10 million U.S. bounty. Geoff Bennett discussed more with Mouaz Mustafa of the Syrian Emergency Task Force.

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Five months after its liberation from the police state of Bashar al-Assad, Syria sometimes looks like a country in civil war. Sectarian clashes have turned ...

Post-Assad Syria, while it is somewhat peripheral to U.S. regional interests, is still best kept as unified as possible with a recovering economy.That way, it is more likely to contain Islamic ...

President Donald Trump will drop sanctions against Syria and meet with the nation’s new president Ahmed al-Sharaa on Wednesday, he announced during a speech in Saudi Arabia.

The fate of Syria has deeper implications for the region. Russia, long a pillar of Assad’s survival, is eyeing a new naval presence in Sudan as a hedge against the uncertain future of its Tartus ...

A recent surge in violence against Syria’s Druze religious community has reportedly seen over 100 people killed since the start of May. This is a grim extension of sectarian targeting that began ...

There are an estimated 700,000 Druze in Syria, making them the country's third-largest religious group; there are also around 230,000 in Lebanon and 25,000 in Jordan. Israel and the Palestinian ...

Hind Kabawat hopes her long experience as a conflict mediator can help Syria’s next generation. The challenges are immense. Hind Kabawat, the only female minister in Syria’s new government, in ...

DAVID MAKOVSKY is Director of the Koret Project on Arab-Israel Relations at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and Adjunct Lecturer of Middle East Studies at the Johns Hopkins University ...

Israel views Syria’s fledgling government as a jihadi threat on its borders that it must counter, both to protect itself and its neighbor’s Druze minority.

The US troops in Syria have assisted its local partner, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, in the fight against ISIS since 2015. The presence was always relatively small, never exceeding ...