Syria

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…

Neither Fatah nor Hamas: Arab News/YouGov poll shows Palestinians want nothing to do with their leadership LONDON: A new Arab News/YouGov survey has identified a broad sense of despair among many Palestinians who feel trapped between an Israeli government they believe has no interest in forging peace and a Palestinian leadership…

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry speaks during an emergency meeting of Arab League foreign ministers in Cairo on May 7, 2023. — AFP Days after Arab League brought Syria back into the alliance, the United States announced that it will not normalise relations with the Bashar al-Assad-led regime. Criticising the middle…

Criticising the Arab League’s decision to readmit Syria, the US on Monday said that President Bashar al-Assad does not deserve normalization after his country’s brutal civil war. “We do not believe that Syria merits readmission to the Arab League at this time,” State Department spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters. Despite…