Mr Hassan is subject to Western sanctions. After he was captured, Mr Tice was held in a garage inside Mr Hassan’s compound, not far from the presidential palace, says the general.

In recent months, American officials have raised the fate of Austin Tice in talks with Syria’s new leadership, led by its interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa. The American citizen vanished in 2012 in a ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s point person for Syria says the administration is concerned that Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa’s efforts to promote inclusive governance and engage with the West ...

RAQQA, Syria — Mofida Majthou squatted, holding a detonator affixed to the end of a long wire. More than 1,600 feet away, winding past a cinder-block shack and across an expanse of sand and ...

Throughout the 14-year Syrian civil war, he has offered aid to Alawites, Muslims, and Christians displaced by the fighting. Some came from Raqqa, once the seat of the self-proclaimed ISIS caliphate.

Ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad fled to Moscow on Sunday, Russian media reported, hours after a stunning rebel advance took over the capital of Damascus and ended the Assad family’s 50 ...

ABU DHABI, 8th June 2025 (WAM) -- UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan today received a phone call from His Excellency Ahmad Al-Sharaa, President of the Syrian Arab ...

Syria's security forces have detained Wassim al-Assad, a cousin of toppled leader Bashar al-Assad, state news agency SANA said on Saturday.

Syrian rebels seized Damascus on Sunday, and long-time President Bashar Assad fled the battle-scarred country amid the stunning collapse of his regime after 13 years of war. Assad and his family ...

REUTERS/Firas Makdesi/File Photo (Reuters) -Syria's security forces have detained Wassim al-Assad, a cousin of toppled leader Bashar al-Assad, state news agency SANA said on Saturday.

CENTCOM forces conducted a precision airstrike in Northwest Syria killing ISIS official Rakhim Boev who was planning operations threatening U.S. citizens and allies.