Syria had already held types of limited elections in other areas of Syria last year. However, areas outside government ...

Syria held follow-up parliamentary elections on Sunday in the Kurdish-majority northeastern province of Hassakeh and the town ...

Abandoned by allies and pressured by Turkey, Syria’s Kurds were forced to surrender autonomy to Damascus.

Syrians vote in an earlier round of elections in Ras al Ain and Tel Abyad in October 2025. (Syrian Arab News Agency) The elections are the latest round of an electoral process that began in October ...

US Envoy Tom Barrack has played a key role in US policy in the Middle East over the past year. He was appointed Special Envoy ...

ALEPPO, Syria (AP) — A month after clashes rocked a Kurdish-majority neighborhood in Syria ’s second-largest city of Aleppo, most of the tens of thousands of residents who fled the fighting between ...

Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani met SDF Commander Mazloum Abdi in Erbil to discuss Syria's security and political situation. Both stressed stability, counterterrorism cooperation, and ...

This significant shift follows a series of major setbacks for the Kurdish-led group in recent weeks. The religiously and ethnically diverse SDF suffered a substantial defeat over the weekend when ...

Syria’s new defence minister has said it would not be right for US-backed Kurdish fighters based in the country’s northeast to retain their own bloc within the broader integrated Syrian armed forces.

QAMISHLI, Syria — The former dividing line between Syrian government territory and Syrian Kurdish forces — a landmark previously approached with caution in this north eastern city — is now a busy ...

The Syrian government says it closed one of the largest camps that housed ISIS fighters and their families. It is the latest example of transformations in Syria, from how it confronts ISIS to whether ...