The regime of Bashar al-Assad and his father Hafez al-Assad managed to stay in power for five decades by exercising brutally ...

Tehran and Damascus developed close strategic ties after Iran’s 1979 clerical revolution ousted the US-supported pro-Israel ...

Jeremy Bowen has returned to Bashar al-Assad's presidential palace in Damascus, almost a decade after he interviewed the ...

Celebrations in Syria May Be Premature The speed of the Assad dictatorship’s collapse stunned even the opposition. But the ...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Jordan's King Abdullah II called for a secure Syria as the top US diplomat began a ...

The man told reporters that his name was Travis Timmerman and that he had entered Syria on a religious pilgrimage. He said ...

Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin was in Damascus on Thursday, two sources with knowledge of the visit told Reuters, ...

Twenty-three-year-old Syrian military conscript Farhan al-Khouli was badly paid and demoralized. For years, the Islamist ...

Rebel forces in Syria captured the capital Damascus and toppled the regime of President Bashar Assad in a lightning-quick ...

Syria's interim government vowed on Thursday to institute the "rule of law" after years of abuses under ousted president ...

Many Syrians remain apprehensive about how religious minorities, including Christians, will be treated in a new political ...

The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved resolutions Wednesday demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and ...