The Latest Breaking News from Bashar alAssad

Decision follows order by Tunisian president to appoint ambassador to Damascus, a decade after diplomatic ties were cut.

The two leading regional powers have been at odds for years, backing opposite sides in proxy wars.

The countries’ foreign ministers agree to open embassies, resume official visits and facilitate visas for citizens.

French judges charge three senior advisers to Bashar al-Assad with complicity in crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Tehran has promised to retaliate against Israel but is focused in the meantime on diplomatic wins in the region.

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.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has appointed a new oil minister and changed four other ministers in a cabinet reshuffle, state media said on Wednesday. Hassan Kaddour, who was the general director of the Syrian Petroleum Company for the last two years, replaces Bassam Touma as oil minister, the report said.…

US Treasury officials say that the Assad government has used drug trafficking as a source of illicit revenue.

The deputy foreign ministers of Syria, Turkey, Iran and Russia will meet in April in Moscow, Turkish and Iranian officials said on Tuesday, building on contacts between Ankara and Damascus after years of hostilities during the Syrian war.

The US and UK on Tuesday slapped sanctions on four Syrians and two Lebanese involved in manufacturing and trafficking the amphetamine drug Captagon, the two governments said. The six include cousins of Syrian President Bashar Assad and notorious Lebanese drug lynchpins. Experts say Captagon is primarily produced in Syria and…

The United States on Tuesday imposed new sanctions against six people including two cousins of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for their role in the production or export of Captagon, a dangerous amphetamine, a Treasury Department statement said.