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President Bashar al-Assad will visit China on Thursday in response to an official invitation by Chinese President Xi Jinping, the local Syrian media quoted the Syrian Presidency as saying in a statement. President al-Assad and President Jinping will hold a Syrian-Chinese summit, the Syrian official news agency SANA quoted the …

Last week, Saudi Arabia invited Syria, long excluded from multilateral formats in West Asia, to this week’s meeting of the Arab League. This was followed on Monday with the United Arab Emirates asking Damascus to attend the COP28 climate summit at the end of this year, giving the embattled country …

Syria on Monday called on Arab countries to invest in the war-torn nation, now again a member of the Arab League. The appeal from Syria’s economy and trade minister came during an economic conference in Saudi Arabia, ahead of a league summit in the Kingdom. The 22-member Arab League agreed …

The talks are taking place as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad mends ties with regional powers after more than a decade of isolation. The foreign ministers of Russia, Syria, Turkey, and Iran have met in Moscow for high-level talks on rebuilding ties between Ankara and Damascus after years of animosity during …

Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi says Syria has managed to overcome difficulties and emerge victorious in spite of all the threats and sanctions targeting the Arab country. “The Syrian government and nation have moved past major difficulties and problems. Today we can say that you … were able to win [the …

Arab foreign ministers will gather in Jordan on Monday to discuss Syria’s long-running conflict and ending Damascus’s diplomatic isolation in the region, the foreign ministry in Amman said. Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has been politically isolated since the conflict in his country began in 2011. However, recent weeks have seen …

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will visit Damascus next week, a senior regional source close to the Syrian government told Reuters on Friday. The visit will be the first by an Iranian president to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since war broke out in Syria in 2011. With military help and economic …

Saudi Arabia is planning to invite Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to an Arab League summit that Riyadh is hosting in May, three sources familiar with the plans said, a move that would formally end Syria’s regional isolation. Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan will travel to Damascus in coming …

Syrian President Bashar Assad could soon meet with his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, sources say. Syria and Egypt are in advanced talks to restore diplomatic relations that were severed after the outbreak of the conflict in Syria back in 2011, informed sources have told the Wall Street Journal. A …

Syria’s foreign minister met his Egyptian counterpart in Cairo on Saturday, the first such visit in more than a decade and the latest sign of Arab states mending ties with President Bashar al-Assad. Faisal Mekdad was embraced by Sameh Shoukry as he arrived at the Egyptian foreign ministry, the first …

Washington is still ordering Islamists to attack Assad’s forces, Moscow’s spy chief has claimed The US is still working with Islamic State terrorists and other Islamist groups to carry out attacks against Bashar Assad’s government forces in Syria, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) chief, Sergey Naryshkin, has claimed. According to …

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad arrived Sunday in the United Arab Emirates, his second visit to the Gulf since a devastating earthquake last month prompted Arab outreach to his government. The trip — Assad’s second to the UAE in as many years — comes after a visit to Oman last month, …

The First Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament pledged that Baghdad would continue sending aid to Syria until the after-earthquake crisis ends. During an official visit to Damascus, Mohsen Al-Mandalawi meets Syrian Prime Minister Hussein Arnous. “The Iraqi people, Parliament, and government share affliction with their Syrian brothers; every Iraqi …

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expressed the possibility of meeting with his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad in forthcoming talks with Russia to discuss peace and stability in the region and in the Arab country. Erdogan said on Thursday that a trilateral meeting of the foreign ministers from Turkey, Russia, …

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued a general amnesty on Wednesday that pardons those charged with terror-related crimes that didn’t result in fatalities, as well as draft dodgers if they report to duty within three to four months. Syria’s official news agency SANA, citing a copy of the presidential decree, reported …

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says despite the devastation done to Syria by the years-long war, the country is now looked upon as a major power.

A US military convoy has been forced to retreat from an area in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah after government soldiers blocked it, amid public anger at the deployment of foreign forces in the oil-rich region. Syrian army troops, deployed at a security checkpoint near the village of al-Damkhiya southwest …

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has paid a surprise visit to Moscow where Russian President Vladimir Putin told him that the presence of foreign forces without a UN mandate is hindering the West Asian country’s recovery. According to reports, a transcript of Monday’s meeting released by the Kremlin said Putin congratulated …

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a decree on Tuesday approved a new cabinet headed by Hussein Arnous, less than two weeks after the caretaker-premier was tasked with forming a new government. The final announcement about the new 21-member cabinet came in a tweet by the Syrian Presidency, with no significant …

One person died and three were injured when a fire broke out on a bus in a heavily fortified army compound in Damascus early on Wednesday, Syrian state news agency SANA reported. One source at the site of the explosion suggested an electrical fault had set the petrol tank on …