U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan agreed on Friday on the need for continued ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had long worked with the rebels who overtook Damascus. His influence over Syria is now likely ...

Turkey is asserting itself as the main player in the shaping of Syria’s future, sending a top official to Damascus and ...

In most capitals across the Middle East, the news of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s fall sparked immense anxiety. Ankara ...

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Hungary has found a solution that will allow it to pay for Russian gas shipments via the Turkstream pipeline from Bulgaria without falling foul of U.S. sanctions, its foreign minister said on Friday, ...

Rebel forces in Syria captured the capital Damascus and toppled the regime of President Bashar Assad in a lightning-quick ...

For more than half a century, the Assad dynasty appeared to have an impregnable hold over Syria. Relying on a formidable security apparatus, brutal use of force, and powerful allies such as Russia, ...

There, Russian president Vladimir Putin has made a series of strategic miscalculations that will undermine Russia’s influence ...

As more than five decades of Assad family rule come to an end, Syrians are cautiously paving a way forward. As the year draws ...

It’s a stark comment from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as Turkey and Russia have been on opposite sides of the conflict in Syria.

Retired diplomat Chas Freeman and writer Pascal Lottaz discuss what happens now that Damascus is in the hands of Hayat Tahrir ...