In place of a coherent strategy or vision, Trump’s approach to the Middle East is driven by dramatic gestures, symbolic ...

United Nations sanctions monitors have seen no "active ties" this year between Al Qaeda and the Islamist group leading ...

The optimism about changes in Syria should be tempered by a look at what is in, and what's out, in the new regime's schoolbooks.

On May 23, 2025, approximately five months after the Assad regime was overthrown, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of ...

as a foreign terrorist organization. HTS was technically disbanded in January, shortly after its then-leader Ahmed al-Sharaa shed rebel attire and assumed the interim presidency in Syria. The change ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week lifting sanctions on Syria as a way to help the country's transitional government gain its footing.

The US has stepped closer towards an alliance that could change the Middle East by no longer regarding Hayat Tahrir Al Sham, ...

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration is revoking the terrorism designation of a group led by Syria's new president as part ...

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham will no longer be designated as a terrorist group, months after the group swept to power in Syria.

The State Department is poised to officially drop its terrorist designation for Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the Islamist ...