Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani has received an invitation to visit Iraq with the date to be determined later after consultations on the agenda, Syria's state news agency SANA said on Friday.

French President Emmanuel Macron offers to back Syria’s interim government in potential partnership with the U.S.-led international coalition fighting against extremist groups in Syria and Iraq at a conference in Paris to discuss the country’s future after the fall

In 2015-2016 alone, more than 1 million migrants came to Germany, most from Syria, but also from Afghanistan and Iraq. Since the last national election in 2021, the number of naturalizations in Germany has risen sharply: More than 500,

The United States of America has maintained some degree of military presence ever since March 19, 2003, when the Iraq War, aka Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), kicked off in order to overthrow then-strongman Saddam Hussein.

French President Emmanuel Macron offers to back Syria’s interim government in potential partnership with the U.S.-led international coalition fighting against extremist groups in Syria and Iraq at a c

Syria's leader Ahmad Al Shara said on Tuesday that the country must unite around a state that has a “monopoly” of weapons, in an apparent warning to rival militant groups. “The unity of weapons and its monopoly by the state is a duty and a must.

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani has received an invitation to visit Iraq with the date to be determined later after consultations on the agenda, Syria's state news agency SANA said on Friday.

MARWAN MUASHER is Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He was Foreign Minister of Jordan from 2002 to 2004 and Deputy Prime Minister from 2004 to 2005.

The airstrike in Syria's Idlib province killed a "senior finance and logistics official" from the militant group Hurras al-Din.

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is piling pressure on Iraq to allow Kurdish oil exports to restart or face sanctions alongside Iran, eight sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

US assistance for camps in Syria that house Islamic State-linked families “cannot last forever,” acting US Ambassador to the UN Dorothy Shea told the UN on February 12. The spotlight on the camps comes as the Islamic State continues to pose a threat,

At least 31 terrorists were "neutralized" in counterterrorism operations in northern Iraq and Syria over the past week, the Turkish National Defense Ministry announced Thursday. A total of 308 terrorists have been neutralized since Jan. 1, 2025, the ministry spokesman, Zeki Akturk, told reporters at a briefing in the capital, Ankara.