Syria

Arab leaders welcomed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad back into the fold Friday at a summit in Saudi Arabia that also grappled with conflicts across the Middle East and beyond. A triumphant Assad called for a "new phase" in regional cooperation in his remarks to the summit, which also featured a…

/ Middle East Issued on: 19/05/2023 - 04:35 01:33 Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is greeted by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) ahead of the Arab League summit, in Jeddah Saudi Arabia on May 19, 2023. © SANA, Reuters Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was given a warm welcome at…

President Bashar al-Assad was shunned over atrocities committed in Syria’s civil war, but on Friday he is expected to join an annual summit of Arab leaders for the first time in 13 years. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month.…

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — Syria ended over a decade of exile from the Arab League on Monday as officials participated in a preparatory session ahead of Friday’s summit in Saudi Arabia. “I… take this opportunity to welcome the Syrian Arab Republic to the League of Arab States,” Saudi Finance Minister…

The Simseks have spent months huddling in tents next to their old home, laid to waste by Turkey's catastrophic quake. How they vote Sunday could prove decisive to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's future. Amid the wreckage of ancient Antakya, a mountain-rimmed cradle of civilisation on Turkey's border with Syria, grandfather…

Saudi authorities announced a major drug bust on Wednesday seizing more than 8 million Captagon pills, at the time that the kingdom is courting the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad to help in combatting drug smuggling.  The latest bust came as Reuters reported that Saudi Arabia has offered Syria "proposed…

QAMISHLI, Syria — Sitting on a classroom chair, his fingers drumming nervously on a tablet, a young boy slowly raises his head to reveal a pair of pale green eyes, high cheekbones and a chiseled jaw. “I want to become a doctor,” he said. He probably never will. Salih, 15,…

/ Middle East Issued on: 10/05/2023 - 15:57Modified: 10/05/2023 - 16:09 This handout picture released by the Syrian Presidency Telegram account on May 10, 2023 shows Syrian President Bashar al-Assad meeting with Saudi's ambassador to Jordan, Nayef bin Bandar Al-Sudairy, in Damascus. Assad received an invitation to next week's Arab…

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad cemented his return to the Arab fold Tuesday when leading Sunni power Saudi Arabia, which long supported Syria's opposition, said its diplomats would resume work in the country. The restoration of diplomatic ties, later confirmed by Damascus, came more than a decade after Riyadh withdrew its…

TEHRAN — Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian traveled to Moscow on Tuesday to attend a four-way meeting with his Syrian, Turkish and Russian counterparts in a summit hosted by the Kremlin.  Prior to the Iranian minister's departure, the spokesman for the country's Foreign Ministry, Nasser Kanaani, told reporters in Tehran that…