Asaad al-Shaibani

Israel has launched hundreds of strikes on Syria since the Islamist authorities ousted longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad in December 2024

Inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) last month visited two sites, one in Deir Ezzor and a second location related to nuclear material identified by Syria

The fall of Bashar al-Assad has freed Syria from decades of Iranian hegemony

Iranian drone intercepted on way toward United Arab Emirates

Ever since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s government, Syria has chosen diplomatic engagement with Israel over military confrontation

Syria and Libya have agreed to reopen Syria’s embassy in Tripoli, which has been closed for 14 years, and reactivate a committee for coordinating bilateral ties during talks between Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah of Libya’s internationally recognised government and Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani

An Israeli attack on a Syrian military airfield just recently demonstrated once again that Syria is becoming a key battleground for the rivalry between regional powers

The United States also removed Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham's (HTS) designation as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist" (SDGT)

The feud between Israel and Turkey took a new turn last week with an Israeli strike against a Syrian airbase reportedly visited just hours earlier by a Turkish defense delegation

This handout photograph released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on December 8, 2025, shows Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa observing the military parade in Damascus during the anniversary of the ousting of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad

France welcomed the step as "a clear demonstration of Syria's commitment to strengthening accountability and justice and combating impunity" following its more than decade-long civil war

Jerusalem warns Ankara against widening Syria role while backing Hamas, Hezbollah

UN inspectors this week visited several undeclared Assad-era Syrian nuclear sites for the first time — including some used to store nuclear material

Damascus and Moscow agree to turn Hmeimim and Tartus into joint training centres

Antonio Guterres backs Syria’s new rulers, calls for full economic reopening

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived in Syria on Saturday on the first visit by a chief of the global body since before the country's civil war erupted, state media reported

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani’s diplomatic motorcade hit the road shortly after his appointment

The recent declaration by President Donald Trump indicating a willingness to remove Syria from the U.S. State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism marks a perilous pivot in American foreign policy

Syria and Lebanon have long had a complicated relationship, with forces from each country intervening in the other over the years

Al-Shaibani calls for a return to the 1974 security agreement between Israel and Syria and demands the withdrawal from territories seized

The European Union on May 11 pushed for a revival of ties with Syria, as it looks to bolster the war-ravaged country, with an eye on prospects for Syrian migrants in Europe to one day return home

Rubio: United States and Europe belong together

Since the December 8, 2024 overthrow of Syria's longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, Israel has sent troops into a UN-patrolled buffer zone that separated Israeli and Syrian forces on the Golan Heights

The report, issued by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and prepared by the U.N. Office of Counter-Terrorism, gave no dates or details of the attempts against al-Sharaa or Syrian Interior Minister Anas Hasan Khattab and Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani

After a series of ceasefires and new eruptions of violence played out through spring and summer, a truce has largely held since July, though instances of clashes continue to emerge as recently as Monday, with the official Syrian Arab News Agency reporting on a mortar attack conducted by Druze militias against security forces in Sweida province

The Syrian delegation includes al-Shaibani as well as General Intelligence Director Hussein al-Salama