In other words, the attack in Palmyra was the first overseas "green-on-blue" incident—a betrayal by an allied soldier—since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. And like the war in ...

AL GHASSANIYEH, Syria — Under a golden autumn sun, Abdallah Ibrahim harvests fistfuls of hard, green olives with evident delight. "We were denied this pleasure for the last 14 years," he sighs. Barrel ...

Since the outbreak of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, Damascus has seized on the ...

More than a decade of devastating conflict has left Syria’s economy in tatters, its infrastructure in ruins and its population deeply fragmented. The fledgling transitional government in Damascus, ...

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Officials from Jordan, Syria and the U.S. on Tuesday discussed ways of supporting war-torn Syria's reconstruction on the basis of improving security after deadly clashes last ...

In December, a band of rebel groups led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham shocked the world by ousting Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. HTS’s leader, Ahmed al-Shara, created a government to oversee the ...

On Sept. 21, 2025, a senior U.S official boasted that an Israeli-Syrian security agreement to resolve months of conflict was “99% complete” and would be announced within two weeks. Those two weeks ...

The US military killed a “senior Al-Qaeda affiliated attack planner” in an airstrike in Syria on October 2. The jihadi was a member of Ansar Islam, a terrorist organization that has operated in Iraq ...

President Donald Trump declared in his first term that the Islamic State group was defeated and that U.S. troops would leave Syria. This weekend, a gunman linked to the Islamic State group killed two ...

Since Iran blocked access to the strait, oil shipments have been trucked from Iraq into Syria and shipped to European markets ...