Alarmed at the prospect of further instability in the region, Saudi Arabia's 89-year-old King Salman bin Abdulaziz dispatched ...

Colorful career criminal Willie Sutton once may (or may not) have been asked why he robbed banks. “Because that is where the ...

US President Donald Trump’s meeting with Syria’s transitional leader, Ahmed al-Shara, in Riyadh last week was accompanied by ...

The United States ambassador's residence in Damascus, Syria, re-opened Thursday after being closed for 13 years, presaging a ...

Thomas Barrack raised the American flag over the U.S. ambassador’s residence in Damascus, amid broader efforts by the Trump ...

The United States' new envoy for Syria, Thomas Barrack, called for a non-aggression agreement between Syria and Israel in ...

The Trump administration should not make the mistake of thinking that an agreement with Iran requires concomitant concessions ...

General License 25 effectively suspends OFAC sanctions targeting Syria. Stringent US export control restrictions on exports and reexports to ...

The European Union has lifted a wide range of sanctions on Syria, but slapped new ones on people it says participated on ...

For months, many Syrians and Syria watchers had worried that the United States might never lift its sanctions. Washington ...

Sunni regional powerhouses Turkey and Saudi Arabia have had a complicated and often contentious relationship over the years. But their ties warmed significantly after Bashar Assad was toppled in ...

The al-Hawl refugee camp in northeastern Syria is effectively an open-air prison for 50,000 people suspected of ties to ISIS.