A Syrian man has buried his wife and four of his five children after Israeli strikes hit Beirut earlier this week.
Over the course of a single day, President Donald Trump went from threatening Iran with “annihilation” to proclaiming that Iran's leadership had presented a “workable” plan that led him to agree to a two-week ceasefire.
As Israel unleashed a sweeping military response to the brutal assault by Hamas on October 7, 2023, it aimed punch after punch at Iran, the militant group’s longtime sponsor, and its proxies.
Three close allies of the United States say they are ready to join forces to defend their interests in the Middle East and stop Iran’s retaliatory strikes following the killing of its supreme leader.
Israel has killed multiple senior officials with Iran's armed proxies like Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon since the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
Arab and Muslim countries are sharply condemning comments by the U.S. ambassador to Israel, who said in an interview that Israel had a right to much of the Middle East.
The Trump administration has informed Congress that it intends to proceed with planning for a potential re-opening of the U.S. Embassy in Damascus, Syria, which was shuttered in 2012 during the country’s civil war.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have announced a new agreement with Syria's central government in Damascus to stabilize a ceasefire.
Syria’s interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa has arrived in Moscow for his second time in less than four months for talks, and Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized his readiness to help the country rebuild its war-battered economy.
Guards from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have abandoned a camp in northeast Syria, allowing detainees linked to the Islamic State group to escape.
The Syrian government has announced a ceasefire with the Syrian Democratic Forces, taking almost full control of the country.
A third round of retaliatory strikes by the U.S. in Syria has resulted in the death of an Al-Qaeda-affiliated leader.
Syria’s military has announced it will open a “humanitarian corridor” for civilians to evacuate from an area in Aleppo province.
President Donald Trump has arrived at a delicate moment as he weighs whether to order a U.S. military response against the Iranian government over its crackdown on protests.
First responders started entering a contested neighborhood in Syria's Aleppo after deadly clashes between government and Kurdish-led forces.
Nickolay Mladenov, the man chosen to serve as the director-general for U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace in Gaza, is a Bulgarian politician and former U.N. envoy to the Middle East who frequently has worked to ease tensions between Israel and Hamas.
Syria's Defense Ministry has announced a ceasefire after three days of clashes in Aleppo between government forces and Kurdish fighters.
Syrian authorities have warned civilians to leave a contested area in Aleppo as clashes between government and Kurdish forces intensify.
The U.S. military operation in Venezuela can be seen as both a benefit and a burden for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Officials from Syria and Israel are set to resume U.S.-mediated talks in Paris to aim for a security agreement to ease tensions between the two countries.
Clashes have erupted between Syrian security forces and Kurdish fighters in the city of Aleppo.
The U.N. refugee agency in Lebanon says the U.S. lifting of sanctions on Syria could encourage more refugees to return.
The Senate has given final passage to an annual military policy bill that will authorize $901 billion in defense programs.
President Donald Trump has paid his respects to two Iowa National Guard members and a U.S. civilian who were killed in an attack in Syria last weekend.
Ahmed al Ahmed, a Syrian-Australian tobacco shop owner, has become a national hero in Australia, with an online fundraiser for him raising millions of dollars.
The two Iowa National Guard members killed in a weekend attack that the U.S. military blamed on the Islamic State group in Syria have been identified.
A Syrian security guard who attacked and killed three U.S. citizens in Syria had joined the internal security forces two months earlier.
President Donald Trump says “there will be very serious retaliation” after two U.S. service members and one American civilian were killed in an attack in Syria that the United States blames on the Islamic State group.
Pope Leo XIV has challenged Lebanon’s political leaders to be true peacemakers and put their differences aside.
Israeli forces have raided a village in southern Syria, killing at least 13 people, according to Syrian officials.
Investigators believe the theft of ancient Roman-era statues from Syria's national museum was likely the work of an individual and not an organized gang.
A Syrian government official says Syria has joined a global coalition against the Islamic State, but that Syria has not joined of the U.S.-led military mission fighting the extremist group.
The U.N. Security Council has voted to lift a series of sanctions on Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa and members of his government days before he's set to arrive in the U.S. for a historic visit to the White House.
Iraq’s prime minister says a small group of U.S. military advisers will stay in the country to coordinate with U.S. forces in neighboring Syria against the Islamic State group.
A military coup this week in Madagascar forced the president into exile, joining a list of international leaders who fled their countries or went into hiding during uprisings to avoid incarceration or retaliation.
Syria’s interim leader, who led a swift rebel offensive last year that ousted former Syrian President Bashar Assad despite years of Moscow’s support, made his first visit to Russia and held talks with President Vladimir Putin.
Syria's foreign minister has arrived in Lebanon's capital, marking a potential breakthrough in relations between the two countries.
Syria has held its first parliamentary elections since Bashar Assad was ousted nearly a year ago.
President Donald Trump has held talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the White House, and he's indicating the U.S. might soon lift its hold on advanced fighter jet sales to the NATO ally.
Turning the page on decades of distance, Syria’s President Ahmad al-Sharaa addressed the U.N. General Assembly, marking the first time any Syrian president has done so in almost 60 years.
World leaders are gathering at one of the most turbulent and divisive moments in the 80-year history of the United Nations.
Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa has arrived in New York to attend the U.N. General Assembly.
An immigration judge in Louisiana has ruled that Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported for not disclosing information on his green card application.
Saudi Arabia says it will supply Syria with 1.65 million barrels of crude to help the country rebuild its economy and infrastructure after a nearly 14-year civil war.
Israel has killed multiple senior officials with Hamas and its regional allies since the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas-led militants in southern Israel that triggered the war in Gaza.
AP reporting raises questions about Israel's rationale for a deadly attack on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital.
Associated Press reporting into an Israeli attack that killed 22 people at a Gaza Strip hospital, including five journalists, raises questions about Israel’s rationale for the attack and the way it was carried out.
The Trump administration has already denied visas for Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and his large delegation to attend the U.N. General Assembly later this month.
The eastern Mediterranean and Middle East are in the grips of one of their worst droughts in decades, which is drying rivers and lakes, shriveling crops and even leading to water cutoffs in major cities.
An official with the U.N. reguee agency UNHCR says that since the fall of Bashar Assad’s government in December, some 850,000 Syrian refugees have returned home from neighboring countries.
Lebanon’s army chief says the military will soon carry out “sensitive missions,” in an apparent reference to the Lebanese government’s U.S.-backed plan to disarm the Hezbollah militant group by the end of the year.
The top U.N. envoy for Syria is warning that its transition remains “on a knife-edge” and violence could resume at any moment in the southern city of Sweida, which saw deadly clashes last month.
Syria’s state-run news agency says the country’s foreign minister has held a rare meeting with an Israeli delegation in Paris.
Syrian, U.S. and Jordanian officials say they will work together toward a permanent ceasefire in a southern Syrian region wracked by deadly sectarian clashes last month that threatened the country’s fragile security in the wake of its yearslong civil war.
Bilateral meetings between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterparts were a regular occurrence early in his tenure.
New outbreaks of violence overnight into Sunday have rocked Syria at two distinct flashpoints, straining a fragile ceasefire and calling into question the ability of the transitional government to exert its authority across the whole country.
Syria’s top diplomat has met with Russian officials on the first visit to Moscow by a member of the new government in Damascus since former Syrian President Bashar Assad was ousted.
France’s highest court has upheld some of Bashar Assad’s immunity as a former head of state.
A Syrian government investigation says more than 1,400 people died in sectarian violence along the coast earlier this year.
A U.S. envoy is reaffirming Washington's support for Syria's new government and telling The Associated Press in an exclusive interview that there is "no Plan B" for uniting the country.
Members of Syria's Druze community are searching for loved ones and counting their dead after days of clashes in a southern province that left bloodied bodies of civilians on the streets and homes looted.
Clashes that shook southern Syria this week have killed hundreds of people, including civilians, and drawn in an array of both local and international players, harking back to the dynamics of the country’s nearly 14-year civil war.
Syrian government forces have started withdrawing from the southern province of Sweida following days of vicious clashes with militias from the Druze minority.
Syrian officials and Druze leaders have announced a new ceasefire after days of violent clashes, but Israel has continued its airstrikes after intervening.
Syria's defense minister has announced a ceasefire just hours after government forces entered a key city in the volatile Sweida province.
Clashes between Syrian government forces and Druze armed groups have escalated, drawing Israeli intervention and raising fears of a breakdown in the country’s fragile postwar order.
Israel has struck military tanks in southern Syria, where government forces and Bedouin tribes clash with Druze militias.
Syria is working to rebuild its energy sector after years of civil war and crippling sanctions.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is telling President Donald Trump that he is nominating the U.S. leader for a Nobel Peace Prize.
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy has met with Syria’s interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa in Damascus marking the restoration of relations between the two countries after years of tension.