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

President Trump eases most sanctions against Syria in a move to reclaim regional leverage, counter Iranian influence, and ...

The country is experiencing its worst drought in decades, which has set the conditions for the blazes to scorch an area the ...

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

Starting Tuesday, Mr. Trump’s executive order dismantles many of those sanctions, including ones against state-linked entities such as Syria’s central bank and other major financial institutions.

Thomas J. Barrack Jr., the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, says Washington is facilitating the discussions and prioritizing economic development over nation-building in the Middle East.

Washington's move follows the lifting of sanctions on Damascus after the ouster of the al-Assad government in December in a ...

President Trump issued Executive Order 14312 (“E.O. 14312” or the “E.O.”) titled “Providing for the Revocation of Syria ...

Critics of the Trump administration’s approach worry that lifting all sanctions at once will give the U.S. little leverage with Syria’s new government to incentivize good behavior.

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Ambassador Tom Barrack, Trump's envoy to Syria, called the new order a "tedious, detailed, excruciating process" of unraveling the sanctions that had been in place for decades on the regime of ...

Washington — President Trump signed an executive order Monday afternoon terminating the United States' sanctions program on Syria, the White House announced.