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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Tom Barrack, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, said on Friday he has assumed the role of special envoy to ...
Report says agreement in principle reached after over month of talks; discussions ongoing over Palmyra bases, Turkish ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country, the United States, Syria and Iraq have formed a working group to try ...
Tom Barrack's dual-hatted role is likely to give Trump more direct finger on the pulse of his Syria policy as the president ...
Round-the-clock direct line between the two countries established to quickly resolve any imminent military complications in ...
Syria has welcomed the move by the Trump administration to ease sanctions, calling it a “positive step” to ease humanitarian ...
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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 Syrian President ...
After toppling Bashar al Assad in December, Syria’s new leaders pledged to crack down on the captagon trade, which had ...
Thomas Barrack, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey who was also appointed as special envoy for Syria, described in a post on X​ that it was a "power step forward" between the two nations.