Donald Trump has promised to keep America out of the Middle East, but Assad's dramatic fall has upended the region's balance of power.

Senior U.S. diplomats on Friday held their first formal talks in Damascus with the leader of the Islamist rebels who overthrew the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a discussion they later characterized as “good” and “thorough.”

Given the fall of Assad regime, Carla Martínez Machain says it’s unlikely U.S. will attack Syria anytime soon.

In a bombshell statement, President-elect Donald Trump criticized the overthrow of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, calling it an "unfriendly takeover" by Turkiye. Speaking at a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate,

President-elect Donald Trump's commitment to ending U.S. involvement in foreign conflicts could be tested in Syria after jihadist rebels succeeded in toppling the Assad regime.

President-elect Trump claimed Turkish President Erdogan was behind the fall of Assad’s regime in Syria and hailed Erdogan as "very smart."

President-elect Donald Trump characterized the rebel ouster of Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad as an "unfriendly takeover" by US ally Turkey as he addressed the conflict at a news conference on Monday.

Joe Biden is still president, but the world's leaders and its crises are knocking on Donald Trump's door. The contrast from last time is striking.

Trump term, former FBI counterterrorism agent Ali Soufan speaks to Vanity Fair about his fears the Middle East could shift “further towards chaos”—and his hopes that the president-elect’s talk of retribution will be just that.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that the U.S. military should stay out of the fast-escalating conflict in Syria, where a dramatic rebel offensive reached the capital and threatened the rule of Syria’s Russian- and Iranian-allied president. “THIS IS NOT OUR FIGHT,” Trump declared on social media.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has more than doubled the number of its forces in Syria to fight the Islamic State group — a dramatic increase that the Pentagon revealed Thursday, acknowledging that the added troops have been there for months or even more than a year.