United Nations sanctions monitors have seen no "active ties" this year between Al Qaeda and the Islamist group leading ...

The State Department is poised to officially drop its terrorist designation for Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the Islamist ...

The move comes in conjunction with President Donald Trump’s June order to lift sanctions on Syria to support “the country’s ...

President Donald Trump's administration on Monday revoked the foreign terrorist organization designation for Hay'at Tahrir al ...

The Trump administration will no longer consider Syria’s Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the group led by Syria’s interim ...

The United States government has revoked its designation of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham as a foreign terrorist organization, seven ...

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

Ahmed al-Sharaa led HTS, considered a jihadist group for years. Now, he has replaced Assad as Syria’s new president. And he ...

The bombing at the Mar Elias Church in Damascus, Syria, last month that killed over two dozen people is an indication that ...

The longtime enemies have opened contacts, reflecting a power shift across a Middle East in which they have newfound common ...

Idlib is the province of northwest Syria that's home to up to 5 million people, where HTS has run a de facto quasi-state since 2017, called the Syrian Salvation Government (SSG). Taxation in Idlib ...

In 1973, Syria tried to reclaim the Golan Heights in a war it waged on Israel with Egypt. It failed, but Israel and Syria agreed to sign an armistice, leading to a demilitarized buffer zone ...