Syria

TRIPOLI (Reuters) -Hannibal Gaddafi, youngest son of Libya's late leader Muammar Gaddafi, was released on Monday after almost a decade of detention without trial in Lebanon over the disappearance of a Shi'ite Muslim cleric, Lebanon's National News Agency said. Gaddafi was abducted in 2015 by militants in Syria, where he…

"There are now absolutely no grounds for asylum in Germany, and therefore we can begin deportations." Germany is moving to deport Syrian migrants back to their own country now that the civil war in that Middle Eastern nation is over. Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that there's no longer any reason…

Less than a year after his lightning power grab, Syria’s president is capping his transformation from jihadist to global statesman in a historic visit to the White House that says as much about the young leader as it does his push for his country’s diplomatic reinvention. Ahmad al-Sharaa’s meeting on…

President Donald Trump is hosting Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa at the White House on Monday, welcoming the once-pariah state into a US-led global coalition to fight the Islamic State group. It's the first visit to the White House by a Syrian head of state since the Middle Eastern country gained…

Al-Sharaa is expected to meet Trump at the White House to discuss direct negotiations between Syria and Israel aimed at reaching a security agreement, as well as Syria’s potential participation in the US-led coalition against Islamic State A short video posted online by Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani showed al-Sharaa,…

It is a moment few could have imagined just a few years ago but the Syrian president, Ahmed al Sharaa, has arrived in Washington for a landmark series of meetings, which will culminate in a face-to-face with Donald Trump at the White House. His journey to this point is a…

Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa arrived in the United States on Saturday for a historic official visit, his country's state news agency reported. The visit comes just a day after Washington removed him from its terrorism blacklist. Sharaa, whose rebel forces overthrew longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad late last year, is scheduled…

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has openly admitted to killing Christians in Nigeria and Africa and has vowed to continue with the killing spree without respite. In a post on X on Sunday by Mario Nafwal, a Lebanese-Australian journalist, the Islamic extremist group dared US President Donald…

DAMASCUS - Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa arrived in the United States on Nov 10 for a landmark official visit, his country’s state news agency reported, a day after Washington removed him from a terrorism blacklist. Mr Sharaa, whose rebel forces ousted longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad late last year, is due…

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa meets top US diplomat Marco Rubio (right) on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York on September 22, 2025. — AFP First Syrian presidential US visit since 1946. Trump–Sharaa White House meeting set for Monday. US hopes Syria joins coalition against…