Antony Blinken is the first U.S. official to confirm contact between the Biden administration and the rebel coalition that ... an American journalist who disappeared 12 years ago near Damascus.

Blinken said in Jordan that he had emphasized the importance of finding Tice in talks with Syria's new parties. Tice is thought to have been t a ken ca ptive near Damascus in August 2012 while he ...

Antony Blinken likens the effort to trying to land three bullet ... President Bashar al-Assad might support such controls because he has come to resent Iran’s heavy-handed presence in Damascus.

A man liberated by Syrian rebels from a prison near Damascus is identifying himself as a U.S. citizen who has been missing for months. The man, who identifies himself as Travis Timmerman, says he ...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken says American officials have been in direct contact with the Syrian rebel group that led the overthrow of Bashar Assad’s government but is designated a foreign ...

Comments by Secretary of State Antony Blinken this weekend were the first time a U.S. official has acknowledged contact with the Syrian rebel group that drove Bashar al-Assad from power.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on December 11, 2024, in Washington, DC.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned on Monday that Islamic State will try to use this period to re-establish capabilities in Syria, but said the United States is determined not to let ...

DAMASCUS -- U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived Friday in Iraq on a previously unannounced stop after talks in Jordan and Turkey. The meetings come less than a week after Syrian ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is pressing ahead with efforts to unify Middle East nations in support of a peaceful political transition in Syria.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken addressed the reports of an “American citizen who was found just today” in a brief interview with Sky News on Thursday.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Saturday that the U.S. has made direct contact with Syria’s Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham ...