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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

But China’s broader geopolitical strategy rests on sustaining a network of autocratic regimes such as Syria, Iran ... of one of them calls into question Beijing’s underlying assumptions.

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 ...

Iran considers its current strategic relationship with Beijing to be “ironclad ... in Lebanon must be thoroughly implemented. In Syria, the top diplomats called for serious efforts to ...