US Company Signs Deal for Syrian Oil

No date has been set, but FM Hussein says he'll soon call his Syrian counterpart to fix a date.

"I have a feeling that we are going to invite the two sides in Baghdad, and when I will will go back, I'm going to reach out to my colleague, the Syrian foreign minister, so that we can fix a date," FM Hussein told journalists on the sidelines of the NATO summit...

Kuwait is looking to reopen its embassy in the Syrian capital, Damascus, 13 years after closing the embassy down in the wake of the Syrian revolution and the Arab League’s decision to suspend Syria’s membership, it has been reported. Many other states closed their embassies as a result of the Arab League decision...

Turkey’s overtures to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s readmission to the Arab League, the election of Iranian reformist Masoud Pezeshkian, and the never-ending war in Gaza all point to the need for the U.S. to recalibrate its Syria policy. Washington must come to terms with the fact that the entire region is normalizing relations with Damascus and Assad...

U.S. officials on Friday said they have agreed to a two-stage shift in the American military presence in Iraq that will allow for continued operations against Islamic State militants in Syria, but pointedly disputed Baghdad’s earlier assertions that a near-total withdrawal is underway... U.S. officials did affirm that the first phase of this “evolution” will end the current military mission in Iraq by September 2025. Baghdad and Washington also have “reached an understanding” in which the roughly 900 U.S. forces deployed to neighboring Syria will continue to receive support from the Iraqi side of the border through at least September 2026, the senior administration official said...