Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the former al-Qaeda affiliate that led the rebel campaign that toppled Assad, has repeatedly vowed to protect minority groups, who fear the new rulers could seek to ...

Israel has taken over a buffer zone between Israel and Syria and says its forces will not withdraw until it is sure that residents of the Golan Heights border area will be secure. Half of these ...

Murhaf Abu Qasra is a leading figure in the insurgency Known by nom de guerre Abu Hassan 600 Earlier on Saturday new rulers also appointed a foreign minister DAMASCUS, Dec 21 (Reuters ...

US diplomats visiting Damascus held Washington’s first in-person official meetings with Syria’s new de facto rulers led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham on Friday and discussed with the former al Qaeda ...

WASHINGTON/DAMASCUS, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Senior U.S. diplomats visiting Damascus on Friday met with Syria's de-facto new ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa and held a "good" and "very productive" meeting with ...

IT WAS a very social week for a man with a $10m bounty on his head. Foreign diplomats rushed to Damascus to talk with Ahmad al-Sharaa (pictured), the rebel commander who led the offensive that ...

Syria is entirely different." Syria's new rulers would respect its culture and history. When I asked whether women would have the freedoms they have come to expect here, he said 60 per cent of ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria’s new rulers stepped up engagement on Tuesday with countries that deemed ousted president Bashar al-Assad a pariah, with the French flag raised at the embassy for the ...

scale up production and invest in advanced business systems. With the new funding, it’s hoping to cash in on a gusher of interest in robotics. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. estimates that the ...

Syria’s new regime, led by a group with former ties to al Qaeda, is on a mission to gain international legitimacy – and it’s already seeing some success. Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, an ...