DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital, an essential link between Europe ...

After the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, The New York Times joined a group of former rebel soldiers trying to enforce law and order in a country grappling with the ghosts of its past.

As it became increasingly clear that Syrians were not imminently leaving Turkey, the Turkish government formalized the ...

Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan and the Central African Republic have been named as among the most dangerous countries to visit from an extreme security risk perspective, according to a risk map compiled ...

The article explores why Syria, despite its early independence, was unable to establish a democracy, instead evolving into a ...

Syria has faced such transitions before. Unless secular, pro-democracy advocates learn from the past, we risk falling into ...

Syria’s new government has strongly condemned Israel’s incursions into a U.N.-monitored buffer zone, urging the international ...

[Istanbul; Quneitra, Syria] — An Israeli drone strike on Wednesday in Quneitra, near Syria’s Golan Heights, targeted a ...

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged Assad’s rule. Tens of thousands of people were killed by the government’s ...

Christians around the world are being attacked and killed, forced to flee and driven underground, the annual report finds.

But as a new government takes shape in Damascus, Syrians and foreign observers alike worry about how inclusive, ...

As Syria’s new Islamist rulers reshape the way schools teach the nation’s history, students struggle to navigate the traumas ...