Trump may believe that Syria is “not our fight,” but the competition with China is very much ours and will undoubtedly be a ...

U.S., French and German envoys have warned Syria's new Islamist rulers that their appointment of foreign jihadists to senior ...

The Syrian conflict presents a pivotal opportunity for China to exhibit its readiness to assume a true global leadership role ...

Notably, Gabbard questioned the US intelligence community’s assessments that Assad was behind a deadly chlorine gas attack ...

This may seem a ridiculous juxtaposition, but it illustrates precisely where Beijing’s strategic priorities lie. It’s not that Syria is unimportant to China. However, performative politics ...

A S REBELS STORMED across Syria late last year, eventually toppling the country’s dictator, Bashar al-Assad, some were accompanied by fighters from a foreign militant organisation—one with ambitions ...

"I believe there will be violent fighting, the end of which we do not know," a top Syrian Democratic Council official told Newsweek.

Syrian government spokesperson did not reply to a request for comment on the thinking behind the appointments.

The removal of Bashar al-Assad has reignited Western and Eastern plans to control Syria’s oil and gas resources.

China, which had forged close ties with Assad but did not play a military role in the conflict, has otherwise adopted a relatively cautious approach to the developments in Syria. Beijing's not ...