President Trump’s newly named envoy to Syria raised the U.S. flag over the ambassador’s residence in Damascus Thursday for the first time since its closure in 2012. Thomas Barrack’s visit to the ...

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for two attacks in southern Syria, including one on government forces that ...

The Islamic State (IS) has claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on Syrian government forces in Sweida province, marking ...

An American flag was hoisted outside of the long-shuttered U.S. ambassador's residence in Damascus Thursday, in a sign of ...

The U.S. flag has been hoisted outside of the long-shuttered ambassador’s residence in Damascus. It's a sign of growing ties ...

The symbolic raising marks the first time the U.S. flag has flown above Damascus since Washington shut down its embassy in ...

The US embassy in Syria was closed after Assad’s repression of a peaceful uprising that began in 2011, which degenerated into ...

The Trump administration held a meeting with Syria's new leader earlier this month and has ordered to roll back decades of ...

In our news wrap Thursday, President Trump and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell had their first in-person meeting of the president's second term, the Supreme Court backed an oil railroad expansion ...

Washington has yet to formally reopen its embassy in Syria, which closed in 2012 after protests the government of strongman ...

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani (2nd L) looks on as US special envoy for Syria, the Ambassador to Turkey Thomas ...

Thomas Barrack raised the American flag over the U.S. ambassador’s residence in Damascus, amid broader efforts by the Trump ...