Damascus, United States - January 16, 2025 Spain will defend at the European Council on January 27 the progressive withdrawal of the sanctions imposed on Syria, has advanced the Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares,

Germany’s foreign minister says sanctions against Syrian officials responsible for war crimes must remain in place but called for a “smart approach” to provide relief to the Syrian population after last month’s overthrow of President Bashar Assad.

The EU, United States, Britain and other governments imposed tough sanctions on Syria after Assad's crackdown on pro-democracy protests in 2011 spiraled into civil war. HTS has renounced its ties with Al Qaeda but is still designated a terrorist entity by the United Nations and U.S.

Six member states of the European Union have called for the bloc to temporarily suspend sanctions on Syria in areas such as transport, energy and banking, according to a paper seen by Reuters. Read more at straitstimes.

A shocking video of the public execution of the former mayor of Dummar district in the northwest of Damascus, Mazen Kenina, who was accused by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham of collaborating with the regime of Bashar al-Assad and extraditing militant

BEIRUT - Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Friday that he had called for a moratorium on EU sanctions on Syria for six months or one year, but that a final decision could only come from the entire bloc.

Syrians marked Wednesday a month since the ouster of longtime dictator Assad in a lightning offensive by an anti-regime alliance. The alliance, led

RIYADH (Reuters) -European foreign ministers will meet at the end of January to discuss the lifting of sanctions on Syria, the EU foreign policy chief said on Sunday in Riyadh ahead of a meeting of top Middle Eastern and Western diplomats and Syria's new foreign minister.

EU crisis management chief Hadja Lahbib announced a 235 million ... in Syria and in neighbouring countries," Lahbib told a press conference in Damascus after meeting Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa. "Our funding will contribute to basic needs like ...

Tajani said Italy wanted to help Syria recover from civil war and rebuild its broken economy, serving as a bridge between Damascus and the EU. “The Mediterranean can no longer just be a sea of ...

The EU foreign policy chief, said the foreign ministers would convene in Brussels on 27 January, in an effort to decide how the 27-nation bloc would relax sanctions on Syria.

Freed from the Assad family and its apparatus of cruel repression, Syrians remain euphoric about the sudden collapse of a regime that ruled by leveraging fear, surveillance and intimidation, resorting to bestial torture and wanton slaughter when all else failed.