Thieves have broken into the National Museum of Damascus and stolen several ancient statues from the Roman era.

Interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa is expected during his Washington visit Monday to commit to joining the U.S.-led coalition to defeat ISIS, two U.S. officials told NBC News.

(Reuters) -Syria recently signed a political cooperation declaration with the Global Coalition to Defeat Islamic State, the Syrian information minister said in a post on X post on Monday. "The agreement is political and until now contains no military components," he said.

Less than a year after his lightning power grab, Syria’s president Ahmed Al-Sharaa is capping his transformation from jihadist to global statesman in a historic visit to the White House that says as much about the young leader as it does his push for his country’s diplomatic reinvention.

A week of bloodletting all-but ended the presence of Bedouins in most of Druze-dominated Sweida province. Months later, their path home remains uncertain.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa told Fox News that one of the issues preventing talks is Israel's "occupation" of the Golan Heights. Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa said in a Monday interview with Fox News that Syria would not at this time enter into talks to join the Abraham Accords,

The killings happened in the village of Anaz in Wadi al-Nasara, or the Valley of the Christians – an area of rolling hills in rural Homs province in western Syria. Locals say the gunman came from the direction of a nearby Sunni Muslim village.

By Timour Azhari DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Syria has foiled two separate Islamic State plots to assassinate President Ahmed al-Sharaa, two senior officials said, adding a personal dimension to the leader's plans to join a U.