Damascus residents stand guard outside shops and homes armed with light weapons often supplied by Syria's new rulers, eager to fill the security vacuum that followed the recent takeover.

KHALID AL-QADI, 26, on Syrians picnicking on a mountaintop in the nation’s capital of Damascus and trading openly in dollars, actions forbidden under the former President Bashar al-Assad. Page A1.

Azm, an archaeologist and former professor at Damascus University, left Syria with his family in 2006. He recently returned ...

The Israeli military has launched a wave of raids across the occupied West Bank, killing at least three Palestinians it said ...

The country’s new leaders are pushing to restore a sense of normalcy. But Syria remains under a host of international ...

The withdrawal marks the demise of a yearslong effort in which Tehran used Syria as a hub in its regional strategy to spread influence and wage proxy war against the U.S. and Israel.