President Donald Trump signed an executive order lifting most US sanctions on Syria this week, cementing a sea change in his ...

President Donald Trump recently proclaimed that long-standing U.S. sanctions on Syria, a U.S. adversary in the Middle East since the beginning of the Cold War, would be lifted.

The Trump administration's May 2025 announcement in Riyadh, and subsequent executive order in June, lifting all sanctions on ...

After more than 50 years in power, the Assad regime has fallen in Syria. How does the situation in Syria affect the United States, and the foreign policy ambitions of the incoming Trump ...

IDEAS Time for the US to admit defeat in Syria More than a decade after we started a program of regime change, Bashar al-Assad is still in power.

The Biden administration said on Monday that US policy on Syria had not changed, saying the Syrian president has blood on his hands. “Nothing has changed with respect to our policy on [Syria’s ...

The optimism about changes in Syria should be tempered by a look at what is in, and what's out, in the new regime's schoolbooks.

The pseudo-left groups backed a war in which nearly 500,000 people lost their lives, nearly half of all the conflict-related deaths worldwide over the same period.

After more than a decade of war, everything about Syria’s political landscape has changed in the space of 72 hours. Now U.S. sanctions policy must change with it. In 2019, Congress passed the ...

President Donald Trump suspended U.S. sanctions on Syria but continues to have certain expectations for the new Syrian government.

The United States publicly spelled out at the United Nations on Friday the steps it wants Syria to take before Washington will change its stance toward the country, as Syria's foreign minister ...

President Donald Trump recently proclaimed that long-standing U.S. sanctions on Syria, a U.S. adversary in the Middle East since the beginning of the Cold War, would be lifted.