Sunni regional powerhouses Turkey and Saudi Arabia have had a complicated and often contentious relationship over the years.

Tensions flare as rockets from Syria prompt Israeli airstrikes, despite Syria’s new government seeking stability and ...

Both announcements mark a big shift in Kurdish strategy. Kurds hope that relinquishing their arms will help them negotiate ...

Turkey’s recent policies in Syria are emblematic of the way a middle power can exert influence in its region, sometimes ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Mazloum Abdi, commander-in-chief of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), revealed on ...

Thomas Barrack, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey who was also appointed as special envoy for Syria, described in a post on X​ ...

President Tayyip Erdogan welcomed the lifting of U.S. and EU sanctions on Syria during a meeting with Syrian President Ahmed ...

Hints at normalisation are a way to keep the US engaged and restrain Israel’s destabilisation campaign in Syria, but ...

(THE CONVERSATION) President Donald Trump announced while in Saudi Arabia on May 14, 2025, that the United States would lift sanctions on Syria. The turnaround was a huge victory for the government of ...

The U.S. flag has been hoisted outside of the long-shuttered ambassador’s residence in Damascus. It's a sign of growing ties ...

says it was an impetus that “significantly transformed Turkey-Saudi relations." Their interests aligned in a post-Assad Syria, so the two shifted “from rivalry to pragmatic cooperation ...