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A boy walks past murals depicting Kurdish YPG and YPJ fighters battling Islamic State militants in Qamishli, northeastern Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)

Kurds weigh hope and caution as Syria’s SDF dissolves and joins the state military

By Hogir Al Abdo - Associated Press

Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, right, welcomes United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres at the Syrian presidential palace in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, July 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)

The U.N. chief on a visit to Damascus urges the international community to support Syrian people

By Ghaith Alsayed - Associated Press

Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa addresses the inaugural session of Syria's newly formed People's Assembly, the first since the fall of President Bashar Assad's government, in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, July 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

What the removal of the state sponsor of terror designation means for al-Sharaa’s Syria

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Syrian security personnel inspect a burned vehicles near the Four Seasons Hotel after two explosions rocked the area earlier while Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa was meeting French President Emmanuel Macron at the presidential palace, in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, July 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)

Syrian and French presidents agree to reappoint ambassadors after more than a decade

By Omar Albam, Ghaith Alsayed and Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, right, meets French President Emmanuel Macron at the presidential palace in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, July 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Explosions rock Damascus, wounding 18, as French President Macron visits Syria

By Omar Albam and Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

FILE - French President Emmanuel Macron, left, talks with the Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa during the EU Summit in Nicosia, Cyprus, April 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)

Macron arrives in Syria as first major western leader to visit war-torn country under new leadership

By Ghaith Alsayed and Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attends the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, Tuesday, June 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Trump won big spending promises from NATO last year. This week in Turkey, he’ll try to enforce them

By Seung Min Kim - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks at Salute to America, an Independence Day event honoring the nation's 250th anniversary, Saturday, July 4, 2026, on the National Mall in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump to meet with Ukraine’s Zelenskyy and Syria’s al-Sharaa during the NATO summit

By Michelle L. Price - Associated Press

FILE - Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa attends a press conference after meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Berlin, Germany, on March 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Syria’s first post-Assad Parliament takes shape as interim president names 70 lawmakers

By Ghaith Alsayed - Associated Press

Syrian children walk along a dirt path at the edge of al-Karama camp, built from scratch with light-brick structures covered with fabric and housing internally displaced Syrians near the village of Atmeh, Idlib province, Syria, Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)

Cash-strapped Syrians living in tent settlements struggle to return home after Assad’s fall

By Omar Albam - Associated Press

A voter casts a ballot during follow-up parliamentary elections in Hassakeh, northeastern Syria, Sunday, May 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)

Syria holds legislative elections in Kurdish-majority northeast

By Hogir Al Abdo and Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

A car drives by a destroyed statue in the Druze-majority town of Sweida, Syria, July 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki) ** FILE **

Question of Druze independence looms large as Damascus consolidates power

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack speaks during a press conference after he and other U.S. senators met with the Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Aug. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

U.S. special envoy for Syria meets with Syrian Democratic Forces chief amid rising tensions

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Security members carry belongings as they leave the damaged Syrian Defense Ministry building allegedly hit by several Israeli airstrikes, in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, July 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Trump pressures Netanyahu on Syria as Israeli actions threaten fragile stability

By Jacob Wirtschafter and Ahmed Qwaidar and Jacob Wirtschafter - Special to The Washington Times

Syria's interim president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, right, meets with U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack at the People's Palace in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, July 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Damascus to intensify attacks on Hezbollah, Iranian forces in Syria, says U.S. envoy

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

In this photo released by Syrian Presidency press office, President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Syria's President Ahmad al-Sharaa, at the White House in Washington, Monday, Nov. 10, 2025. (Syrian Presidency press office via AP)

Syrian official says his country has joined the anti-IS coalition but not the military mission

By Abby Sewell - Associated Press

In this photo released by Syrian Presidency press office, President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Syria's President Ahmad al-Sharaa, at the White House in Washington, Monday, Nov. 10, 2025. (Syrian Presidency press office via AP)

Syrian president, former al Qaeda leader, meets with Trump, signs anti-terrorism pact

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Syria President Ahmad Al-Sharaa speaks during the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 24, 2025, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

Activists to deliver letter to Trump on behalf of persecuted Christians ahead of al-Sharaa’s visit

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Syria's leader, President Ahmad al-Sharaa illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Trump must hold Syria’s new leader al-Sharaa accountable

By Morhaf Ibrahim and Richard Ghazal

Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, left, speaks with former United States Army General David Howell Petraeus, right, during the Concordia Annual Summit, in New York, Monday, Sept. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Syria wants sanctions dropped as al-Sharaa prepares for White House visit

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times