Trump may believe that Syria is “not our fight,” but the competition with China is very much ours and will undoubtedly be a ...

The Syrian conflict presents a pivotal opportunity for China to exhibit its readiness to assume a true global leadership role ...

Prominent Uighur, Jordanian, and Turkish foreign fighters given military ranks, as Islamist rebel group at core of de facto ...

Beijing, a long-term supporter of Assad, has closely monitored the ramifications of its overall Middle-East strategy and is expected to carefully manage relations with the new Syrian government ...

Despite China’s geographical distance from the conflict, analysts warned that the rebel takeover in Syria should be raising alarm bells in Beijing. Jonathan Ping from Bond University ...

This may seem a ridiculous juxtaposition, but it illustrates precisely where Beijing’s strategic priorities lie. It’s not that Syria is unimportant to China. However, performative politics ...

A S REBELS STORMED across Syria late last year, eventually toppling the country’s dictator, Bashar al-Assad, some were accompanied by fighters from a foreign militant organisation—one with ambitions ...

The wheels are coming off of the economy that Vladimir Putin has staked his whole presidency on repairing and maintaining.

"I believe there will be violent fighting, the end of which we do not know," a top Syrian Democratic Council official told Newsweek.

In People’s Daily, Araghchi said supporting the Syrian people was a “definite principle (that) should be taken into consideration by all the actors.” Beijing had also built strong ties with ...

Syria's new rulers, drawn mainly from HTS ... where there is a large Uyghur Muslim population. Rights groups accuse Beijing of widespread abuses of Uyghurs, a mainly Muslim ethnic minority ...