The head of the world's chemical weapons watchdog met Syria's new leader Saturday, in a first visit to Damascus since the ouster of Bashar al-Assad, who was repeatedly accused of using such weapons ...
In an interview, Murhaf Abu Qasra, a onetime leader in Syria’s insurgency, discussed moves by authorities in Damascus to build new alliances.
The risk is that the anti-Israel “axis of resistance” from Iran could be replaced by a new pro-Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood alliance led by Turkey’s president.
Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.
To applause, percussionist Bahjat Antaki took the stage with Syria's national symphony orchestra, marking the first classical ...