EU crisis management chief Hadja Lahbib on Friday became the first European Union official to visit Syria since Islamist-led forces toppled longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad last month.

EU foreign ministers are set to discuss relaxing Syria sanctions during a meeting in Brussels on Jan. 27. European leaders began reassessing their policy toward Damascus after the ousting of president Bashar al-Assad by insurgent forces led by the Islamist ...

EU crisis management chief Hadja Lahbib announced a 235 million euro aid package for Syria and neighbouring countries on Friday during a visit to Damascus.

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Wednesday she hopes a political agreement on easing Syria sanctions can be reached at a gathering of European ministers next week. EU foreign ministers will discuss the situation in Syria during a meeting in Brussels on Jan.

EU countries have been quick to pause asylum applications, but there is no guarantee that Syrians can safely return home

Slovakia has seen growing political tensions in recent months, with divisions deepening between the government and opposition. The country’s direction on foreign policy, particularly its stance toward Russia and the European Union,

For more than a decade, Mr. al-Assad remained in power, employing vicious means to do so while enjoying an obscene amount of impunity. In recent years he was even beginning to be welcomed back to an international community eager to move on and to return Syrian refugees, despite clear evidence that Syria was not safe.

The French justice system has established the former Syrian president's complicity in a bombing raid on the city of Deraa in 2017. Bashar al-Assad is the target of a new arrest warrant (the second) issued by France for complicity in war crimes.

The Red Cross said on Saturday it had completed the second phase of release operations as part of a Gaza ceasefire agreement, transferring four Israeli hostages from the enclave and facilitating the release of detainees from Israeli centres.

Some 70 people killed in attack on hospital in besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan, World Health Organization chief says.

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