A fragile truce reached this week between the Syrian government and Kurdish-led fighters was seen as a blow by many Kurds in ...

Around 1,000 US troops are stationed in Syria, the Wall Street Journal reported, and are mainly co-stationed with Kurdish-led ...

Washington is betting on the new Syrian government to unify the country by force.

Questions have emerged over the fate of thousands of Islamic State prisoners in northeastern Syria after government forces ...

The Kurdish people have been the strongest and most reliable allies of the United States in the Middle East. Kurds fought bravely alongside U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria and ...

A Kurdish force that helped defeat the Islamic State is collapsing as the Trump administration turns to back the new Syrian ...

On September 2, 2025, the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) issued its widely anticipated Final Rule “Relaxing Export Controls for Syria” (the “BIS Rule”) that ...

Undoubtedly, some in Washington believe the Trump administration should have stood up for the Kurds more strongly than it did ...

WASHINGTONThe (AP) — The Trump administration launched military strikes Friday in Syria to “eliminate” Islamic State group fighters and weapons sites in retaliation for an ambush attack that killed ...

Few places display the cost of civil war as starkly as Syria. On my first visit back since serving as the American ambassador from 1998 to 2001, the country is barely recognizable. The large, Sunni ...

The Trump administration has taken recent steps to rescind longstanding sanctions and export control restrictions on Syria. Aligning US policy with President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14312 of 30 ...