When the leader of Syria shook hands with U.S. President Donald Trump, it was a striking moment for a man who was an al-Qaida ...

The president's administration showed few signs of offering easy progress, but the removal of crippling sanctions give Syrians a chance to chip away at their $400 billion rebuild.

The meeting, on the sidelines of Trump's get-together with the leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council, marks a major turn of ...

Five months after its liberation from the police state of Bashar al-Assad, Syria sometimes looks like a country in civil war.