To applause, percussionist Bahjat Antaki took to the stage with Syria’s national symphony orchestra for the first classical concert at the Damascus Opera House since President Bashar al-Assad ...

“Perhaps relations with them will be restored in a way that serves Syria’s interests first and then their interests,” he said. The Russian delegation, led by Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail ...

The Defense Department is developing plans to withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria, two U.S. defense officials told NBC News on Tuesday. President Donald Trump and officials close to him recently ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz discussed Syria's political future and economic reconstruction in his first phone call with the country's new President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Friday. “The chancellor ...

That has irked Turkey, which supported the rebels now controlling Syria. Turkey considers the SDF to be an offshoot of the ...

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PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron became the first European Union head of state to speak directly with Syria's new president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, on Tuesday. Macron's office said that he "took the ...

Military officials say this photo taken from a nearby vessel shows smoke rising from a fire aboard the Russian spy ship Kildin off the coast of Syria on ... the Kildin at first identified itself ...

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A trip to France would mark Al-Sharaa’s first overseas visit to a Western nation since becoming Syria’s de facto leader in December last year following a lightning offensive which overthrew the Assad ...