#theguardian.com. × Tony Burke ‘taking advice’ from security agencies about Australian women and children in Syria seeking to return. Temporary Exclusion Orders allow the home affairs minister to stop a person entering for up to two years, but there is a high bar for the powers
#Feb.17.2026
#theguardian.com. × Five plots to kill Syrian president or ministers were foiled last year, says UN. Report on Islamic State says Ahmed al-Sharaa was targeted twice by IS front group that bombed Damascus church
#Feb.12.2026
#theguardian.com. × Syrian government and Kurdish forces reach deal on permanent truce. Milestone appears to resolve escalating tensions over the question of Kurdish autonomy in north-east Syria
#Jan.30.2026
#theguardian.com. × Mother of man jailed in Syria for Islamic State links calls for his repatriation to UK or Canada. Sally Lane fears son Jack Letts, who left UK aged 18, may face death penalty if airlifted to Iraq under US operation
#Jan.27.2026
#theguardian.com. × US declares partial suspension of sanctions on Syria after historic meeting. Ahmed al-Sharaa and Donald Trump hold first White House summit between a US and Syrian leader since 1946
#Nov.10.2025
#theguardian.com. × Trump administration mulling new travel restrictions on citizens from dozens of countries. New memo lists 41 countries – including Afghanistan, Cuba and Syria – that could face new restrictions, evoking first-term Muslim ban
#Mar.15.2025
#theguardian.com. × Israel to occupy Syrian southern territory for ‘unlimited time’, says minister. Israel Katz reaffirms IDF will continue holding Mount Hermon area beyond contested northern Israeli borders
#Mar.12.2025
#theguardian.com. × Syrian government reaches deal with Kurdish-led SDF to integrate north-east region. Agreement recognises Kurdish rights as president Ahmed al-Sharaa seeks to achieve nationwide ceasefire
#Mar.10.2025
#theguardian.com. × Death toll rises as Syrian security forces struggle to quell Assad loyalist attacks. Battle in Latakia is marked escalation by Bashar al-Assad loyalists against Syria’s new Islamist-led government
#Mar.07.2025
#theguardian.com. × Inside the Islamic State prisons the west is trying to forget – podcast. Michael Safi travelled to north-east Syria to speak to IS foreign fighters imprisoned there. And discovered that a change in the US administration, and USAid funding cuts, means there is a growing fear
#Mar.07.2025
#theguardian.com. × Why Snowden – not Russia or Syria – could tank Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination. Trump’s pick to lead national intelligence has upset foreign policy hawks by not condemning the NSA whistleblower
#Feb.01.2025
#theguardian.com. × Rebel leader Ahmed al-Sharaa made transitional president of Syria. Appointment of former leader of group that led operation to topple Assad comes amid other political changes
#Jan.29.2025
#theguardian.com. × Ministers from 17 countries meet for Saudi talks on speeding aid to Damascus. Riyadh meeting also discussed keeping pressure on Syria’s new leadership to meet commitment to inclusive transition
#Jan.12.2025
#theguardian.com. × British IS members in Syria should be allowed home, says Trump’s counter-terror pick. Sebastian Gorka says letting people in prison camps return to Britain would benefit the ‘special relationship’ with US
#Jan.09.2025
#theguardian.com. × Inclusive transition best path to lifting of Syria sanctions, says UN special envoy. Geir Pedersen tells security council the HTS administration has great opportunities but also risks making missteps
#Jan.08.2025
#theguardian.com. × French and German foreign ministers ‘want new relationship with Syria’. Jean-Noël Barrot and Annalena Baerbock call for peaceful transition in highest-level western visit since Assad’s fall
#Jan.03.2025
#theguardian.com. × Trump’s killing of Qassem Suleimani led to fall of Assad, says Tugendhat. Ex-security minister says assassination ordered by Trump set off chain of events that led to revolution in Syria
#Jan.01.2025
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