The Latest Breaking News from Syria

Negotiations to end more than 40 years of conflict between the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) have taken on a concrete dimension. On May 12, two months after the PKK’s imprisoned leader, Abdullah Öcalan, wrote a letter in which he called on the group to lay down…

The president’s speech in Saudi Arabia promised a new course for U.S. policy in the Middle East. Can he deliver?

US president urges Syria’s interim president to establish ties with Israel, says US will drop ‘all sanctions’.

Syria also offered the US president a Ukraine-style mineral deal

Authorities say no major damage has been reported and there is very little risk of a tsunami.

US president talks to Ahmed al-Sharaa in Saudi Arabia as lifting of sanctions is met with jubilation in Damascus

Health secretary calls the downsizing of department as necessary cost-cutting measures as he defends spending plans under Trump’s budget proposal

Donald Trump was set to meet the leader of Syria and the heads of the Gulf states Wednesday in Riyadh before travelling to Qatar where controversy is swirling over the gifting of a luxury aircraft.

Trump announced Syrian sanctions relief alongside a $142bn arms deal with Saudi Arabia. Key US politics stories from Tuesday 13 May 2025 at a glance