President Donald Trump signed an executive order lifting most US sanctions on Syria this week, cementing a sea change in his ...

President Donald Trump recently proclaimed that long-standing U.S. sanctions on Syria, a U.S. adversary in the Middle East since the beginning of the Cold War, would be lifted.

After warning for months that he could pull U.S. troops from Syria, President Trump is making a renewed push to find a political solution to the country’s ongoing civil war. Foreign affairs ...

The number of US troops in Syria has always been an issue of discussion in Washington. There were thought to be several hundred for years, but the real number is believed to be about 2,000.

U.S. policy in Syria remains fixed in ... such an abrupt change in policy is simply not possible—Bashar al-Assad will forever be considered a war criminal more deserving of a trial in The ...

How does the situation in Syria affect the United States, and the foreign policy ambitions of the incoming Trump ... What regime change in Syria means for the U.S. December 10, 2024 4:40 PM ...

In a significant shift in international policy, the United States, European Union, and United Kingdom have each taken steps to ease sanctions on Syria, aiming to support the country’s ...

In a photo released by the Russian state-owned news outlet, Sputnik, the body of the remains of a plane burned following the U.S. missile attack on an air base in Syria, April 7, 2017.

U.S. policy in Syria was to use a small footprint and work “by, with and through” the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), ... Partly it is due to a change in administration.

After more than a decade of war, everything about Syria’s political landscape has changed in the space of 72 hours. Now U.S. sanctions policy must change with it. In 2019, Congress passed the ...

Ending our regime-change policy toward Syria would allow Assad, ... In September the United States reached an agreement to withdraw troops from Iraq, where they have been deployed for two decades.

Trump followed up the compliments with a policy change that reverberated throughout the Middle East: a suspension of the U.S. sanctions regime on Syria, which the White House argued was a ...