President Trump held an extraordinary meeting on Wednesday with the president of Syria, Ahmed al-Shara, a day after announcing that the United States would lift sanctions on his country — a move that ...

For the first time in 25 years, the leaders of Syria and the U.S. met.

U.S. lawmakers are eager to extend a hand to the Syrian government, lest it fall back to its old Assad-era habits of cooperating too closely with rivals like Iran and Russia.