Ms Barbara Leaf, the US diplomat for the Middle East, says the talks with the new Syrian leader were positive. Read more at ...

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A senior US diplomat told Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa on Friday that Washington was scrapping a reward for his arrest, ...

Leaf’s team was the first group of American diplomats to formally visit Syria in more than a decade, since the U.S. shuttered ...

This move paved the way for a new international-regional security dynamic at the expense of the Syrian state, its sovereignty ...

By Humeyra Pamuk, Amina Ismail and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON/DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Senior U.S. diplomats visiting Damascus on ...

A senior delegation of U.S. diplomats arrived in Syria to meet with the new de facto rulers, looking to understand more about ...

Losing Syrian military bases would hurt the Kremlin’s attempts to project power in the Middle East and Africa.

The first appearance of a formal US delegation in more than a decade is a sign of dramatic shifts since Assad's fall.

Senior U.S. diplomats on Friday held their first formal talks in Damascus with the leader of the Islamist rebels who overthrew the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a discussion they later ...

The United Nations Security Council on Friday extended a long-running peacekeeping mission between Syria and the ...

In the 12 years since Austin Tice was abducted in Syria, his family and his coworkers at McClatchy have grieved at his ...