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 ...

Country’s UN ambassador Fu Cong says new government in Damascus must prevent terrorist forces from threatening other countries.

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

But the instability and escalation likely to follow in Syria will fuel disagreements and tensions across the region," Marks said. "Beijing will have to carefully navigate a politically explosive ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) threatened Beijing in a video released on Dec 8, the day the Syrian regime collapsed, showing its fighters holding machine guns and wearing military fatigues. “Now ...

Later, on Friday night, Liu provided additional remarks in which he said that Beijing "noted the reports" of the presence of ETIM's successor in Syria and affirmed how it "has plotted and carried ...

China’s ties with Syria are being tested by the sudden downfall of Beijing-friendly Bashar al-Assad, but analysts predict China and the new government in Damascus will take a pragmatic approach ...