Government of Syria
Central government of Syria
Follow Government of Syria on Notably News to receive short updates to your email — rarely!
| April 2025 | Saudi Arabia planned to pay off Syria's $15 million World Bank debt, indicating increased diplomatic and economic engagement with the new Syrian government led by Ahmed al-Sharaa. |
| 2025 | Canada reestablished diplomatic relations with Syria. |
| March 20 2025 | Germany reopened its Embassy in Damascus. |
| March 13 2025 | Canada announced plans to ease sanctions against Syria and name its ambassador to Lebanon to serve in a parallel role in Syria. |
| January 29 2025 | People's Assembly was officially abolished by transitional authorities. |
| January 16 2025 | Spain reopened its Embassy in Damascus. |
| January 2 2025 | Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced plans to re-establish diplomatic relations with Syria. |
| 2024 | Syria's embassy in Rome was reopened. |
| December 2024 | New Syrian government begins actively engaging with the European Union, neighboring countries like Turkey, and the Arab world to pursue post-war reconstruction efforts. |
| December 2024 | Qatar reestablished diplomatic relations with Syria. |
| December 30 2024 | Ukraine opened an honorary consulate in Damascus during a visit by foreign minister Andrii Sybiha, signalling a warming in relations following the fall of the Assad regime. |
| December 15 2024 | Belarusian diplomatic personnel were withdrawn from Syria. |
| December 14 2024 | Turkey became the first country to re-establish diplomatic relations with post-Assad Syria. |
| December 8 2024 | Syrian rebel offensives successfully overthrow Bashar al-Assad's government, resulting in the fall of Damascus. Many government officials from Assad's regime flee to neighboring countries seeking sanctuary. |
| December 8 2024 | Tahrir al-Sham, the dominant opposition faction, appoints Mohammed al-Bashir of the Syrian Salvation Government as Prime Minister to lead the transitional administration. |
| July 2024 | Italy decided to re-establish relations with Syria, appoint a special envoy and chargé d'affaires, and reopen its embassy in Damascus, becoming the first G7 nation to restore diplomatic ties with Syria. |
| 2023 | Prime Minister of Grenada, Dickon Mitchell, expressed sympathy and solidarity with Syria regarding the Turkey-Syria earthquakes. |
| September 4 2023 | Syria established diplomatic relations with Bolivia. |
| May 19 2023 | Scheduled Arab League summit where President Assad may potentially attend, marking a significant moment in Syria's regional diplomatic relations. |
| May 7 2023 | Syria was readmitted to the Arab League, signaling a diplomatic reconciliation with regional states. |
| May 7 2023 | The Council of the Arab League in Cairo agreed to reinstate Syria's membership in the organization. |
| April 2023 | Syria officially re-established diplomatic relations with Tunisia. |
| April 18 2023 | Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan traveled to Damascus and met with Syrian President Assad to discuss further steps towards normalization. |
| April 13 2023 | Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad arrived in Jeddah to meet Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan, seeking a political solution to the Syrian crisis. |
| February 26 2023 | Bashar al-Assad met with lawmakers from Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, Libya, Egypt, and the UAE, as well as representatives from Oman and Lebanon, breaking more than a decade of regional isolation. |
| 2022 | Diplomatic normalization efforts began between Syria and Turkey. |
| 2022 | Nigeria called for lifting all sanctions imposed on Syria. |
| 2022 | Syrian-Turkish normalization efforts were initiated, but ultimately ended with the overthrow of the Ba'athist regime. |
| July 2022 | The President of the Senate of Paraguay, Óscar Rubén Salomón, made an official state visit to Syria to establish political, economic, commercial, and parliamentary relations. He was received by Syria's top constitutional officials including Bashar al Assad. |
| 2021 | Syria was elected to the executive of the World Health Organization. |
| 2021 | Greece and Cyprus re-established diplomatic relations with Syria and opened their embassies, becoming the first EU countries to do so after the Syrian civil war. |
| March 1 2020 | A Libyan diplomatic delegation visited Damascus to sign a memorandum of understanding regarding reactivating diplomatic missions between the two countries. |
| 2019 | Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban, the presidential advisor, met with Bolivian Minister of Foreign Affairs Diego Pary Rodríguez to discuss friendly relations and mutual cooperation. |
| October 7 2019 | The U.S. President ordered the withdrawal of U.S. military troops from the Syrian-Turkey border, which was followed by a Turkish attack on Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). |
| 2018 | Ba'athist Syrian government becomes partially isolated from regional and international community due to the ongoing Syrian civil war. |
| December 27 2018 | The United Arab Emirates reopened their embassy in Syria, following President Trump's announcement of partial U.S. troop withdrawal. |
| December 16 2018 | Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir became the first Arab League member to visit Syria since the eruption of the Syrian civil war in 2011. |
| 2017 | Egypt called for Syria's re-admittance to the Arab League. |
| April 6 2017 | President Trump ordered the first U.S. airstrike on the Syrian air force, launching Tomahawk missiles at Syria's Shayrat air base in response to an alleged sarin gas attack in the Idlib region. |
| 2016 | Syrian consulate in Montreal was closed. |
| 2014 | Mexico closed its honorary consulate in Damascus. |
| 2014 | President Bashar al-Assad received congratulatory cables from Guyana's President Donald Ramotar on winning the Syrian presidential election. |
| June 1 2014 | Zimbabwe's Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Foreign Affairs expressed solidarity with Syria and its government. |
| August 21 2013 | The United States threatened to strike Syrian chemical and biological weapons installations in response to an alleged chemical attack in Ghouta, Damascus. |
| June 2013 | Egypt's president Mohammed Morsi announced he would cut all relations with the Syrian government. |
| March 26 2013 | At the Arab League summit in Doha, the League recognized the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces as the legitimate representatives of the Syrian people, granting them Damascus' seat at the summit. |
| 2012 | Syria was suspended from the Union for the Mediterranean |
| December 2012 | US President Barack Obama announced formal recognition of the Syrian Opposition Coalition as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people. |
| November 12 2012 | Six Arab states of the Persian Gulf recognized the Syrian National Coalition as Syria's only legitimate representative, though Iraq, Algeria, and Lebanon prevented the Arab League from fully adopting this stance. |
| May 29 2012 | The Syrian Embassy in Ottawa was closed. |
|
We are only showing the most recent entries for this topic. |
|
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles Foreign relations of Syria & Government of Syria, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.