Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs of the United Arab Emirates, met with Syria’s interim Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shaybani on Monday to ...

By Ismaeel Naar Reporting from Manama, Bahrain, and from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates For decades, Syria was Iran’s closest Arab ally in the Middle East while the wealthy Persian Gulf ...

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani said on Wednesday that the country will open its economy to foreign ...

While it’s unclear what exact political path Syria will take, the dilemmas the country faces are similar to the experiences ...

No country has as much to gain from a stable Syria as Turkey, and few have as much to lose if it implodes. Turkey is home to ...

Syria’s new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa and the president of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, agreed in a phone call on the importance of continuous coordination to ...

While major ruptures are not expected, Gulf states are urging a tougher stance on Israel and a softening toward Iran, ...

Syria's interim Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani, who has repeatedly called for lifting long-standing sanctions, attended ...

Foreign ministers from Arab and Western countries held a meeting in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Sunday to discuss the situation in Syria following last month’s fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime.

Shibani paid separate visits to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar in early January, during which he discussed bolstering ties. Qatar has pledged to initially supply Syria with 200 ...