Diana Helm, former mayor of Damascus, was selected last week to fill Position 4 on the Clackamas County Board of ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — An American flag was hoisted outside of the long-shuttered U.S. ambassador’s residence in Damascus on Thursday, in a sign of growing ties between Washington and the new ...

Barrack, who is also U.S. ambassador to Turkey, was named as Syria's U.S. envoy on May 23. He noted Syria had been under U.S. sanctions since 1979. Some of the toughest were implemented in 2020 ...

Washington hasn't formally reopened its embassy in Damascus, which closed in 2012 after protests against the government of then-President Bashar Assad, met by a brutal crackdown, spiraled into ...