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.

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 Biden administration is unlikely to lift sanctions and the terror designation of Syria, which prevent the US government from providing direct aid to the country. But US officials have been ...

Ad Policy Syrians celebrate the fall of Bashar al-Assad regime and the New Year’s Eve in the capital, Damascus, on December ...

The Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp near Damascus was devastated by the Syrian civil war. The scene of violent clashes ...

In-depth: Once the beating heart of Palestinian life in Syria, Yarmouk Camp came to symbolise some of the worst suffering during the country's brutal war.

A main road in the provincial capital of Quneitra in southern Syria was blocked with mounds of dirt, fallen palm trees and a metal pole that appeared to have once been a traffic light. On the other ...

Assad's fall in Syria was sudden and unexpected even for those analysts who had been watching developments in the country for a long time. Three journalists who were covering events in the Middle East ...

Several people died during and after the riot, including one protester by gunshot and four police officers by suicide. More ...

A planned overhaul of Syria’s education curriculum is spurring concerns about the new government’s assurances that it will ...

In the streets of Suwayda, Syria’s southern city that is home to a large Druze community, many people think a decentralized government is the best way to guarantee their citizenship rights and those ...