Iran and the United States prepared for a fifth round of negotiations over Tehran's rapidly advancing nuclear program ...

The plans that Washington has in place for Syria now are in large part the same as those that were drawn up in early 2011 when the U.S. believed the al-Assad regime would fall in a matter of weeks.

Despite his jihadist past, the Syrian president endeavors to align his country, once a pillar of the pro-Iranian axis unde, ...

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He's a former al-Qaeda member, but on Wednesday, new Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa stood on the world stage with President ...

Neighbors and colleagues reported on each other everywhere. Now, Syrians are shadowed by the question of who among them had ...

Alaa Hassan was 25 years old when the uprisings against Bashar al-Assad began in Syria. He was part of the movement that grew ...

For decades, former president Bashar al-Assad, his relatives and allies enjoyed wide-ranging privileges before his overthrow in a lightning Islamist-led offensive in December. Equestrian sports surged ...