The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...

Several thousand Iranians came from across Europe to rally in Paris on Saturday, calling on world leaders to put greater ...

Syrians are once again picnicking and smoking shisha amid the ruins of ancient Palmyra, once desecrated by jihadists but ...

Sharaa, also known by the nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Julani, is the leader of the Hayat Tahrir-al-Sham, the rebel group ...

Amid the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and talks with Israel, Hafez al-Assad's top priority was ...

Syria’s interim president has made his first trip abroad, traveling to Saudi Arabia in a move likely trying to signal ...

Since the fall of longtime ruler Assad in December, Syria's authorities have dissolved the former military and security ...

Saudi Arabia is pushing world governments to lift international sanctions on Damascus as it looks to shape the future of a ...

The militant group’s leader admits that the toppling of Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, cut off an important land route from Iran. For decades, Iran poured money and military aid into ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

As the Israeli military swept into a string of Syrian villages nearly two months ago, the soldiers assured locals that the ...

He was received at Damascus International Airport by Syria’s transitional president Ahmed al-Sharaa. Read more at ...