Amid a hardening of anti-migration rhetoric, EU leaders met in Brussels last week to consider a call from Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s prime minister, to normalise relations with Bashar al-Assad ...

Giorgia Meloni is leading EU calls to normalise relations with the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad to facilitate migrant deportations to the country. The Italian prime minister will hold private ...

Baerbock and top French diplomat Jean-Noel Barrot visited Syria's Saydnaya prison, an emblem of abuses under deposed leader Bashar al-Assad, in the highest-level visit by major Western powers ...

Bashar al-Assad has clung to power in Syria with the support of Vladimir Putin Credit: MATIN GHASEMI/BORNA NEWS/AKSONLINE ATPIMAGES/GETTY IMAGES James Crisp Europe Editor 16 October 2024 3:46pm BST ...

Some European Union sanctions on Syria will be lifted as part of a broader EU move to help stabilise Damascus after the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad in December, France’s foreign minister ...

The UK is to start processing Syrian asylum claims again, more than seven months after decisions were paused following the ...

A 32-year-old Syrian man, who arrived in Austria in 2013 and was sentenced to seven years in prison in 2018, was deported on Thursday to his country of origin. Refugee aid organizations fear that this ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union imposed on Monday an asset freeze and a ban on travel to the EU on five people linked with toppled Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad for supporting crimes ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Bashar al-Assad, who was president of Syria from 2000 to 2024. 1994 – Syrian President Hafez Assad’s oldest son and heir apparent, Basel, dies in a car ...

Meanwhile, Trump announced a 35% blanket tariff on imports from Canada, up from 25% announced in February, the ABC reported. Trump justified the tariffs as necessary to manage the opioid crisis, which ...

The new order does not rescind existing sanctions on ousted longtime President Bashar al-Assad, his top aides, officials and ...

UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy traveled to Damascus to renew diplomatic relations with Syria on Saturday, eight months ...