Syria's former president, Bashar al-Assad, didn't trust the White Helmets. He associated them with the rebels trying to oust him, and he plastered Damascus with billboards vilifying the White ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The White Helmets did not dare set foot near Damascus for years after dictator Bashar al-Assad branded the ...

American Jews Who Fled Syria Ask White House to Lift Sanctions So They Can Rebuild in Damascus WASHINGTON (AP) — American Jews who fled their Syrian homeland decades ago went to the White House ...

DAMASCUS — An Israeli airstrike targeted an apartment building in a residential neighborhood in the Syrian capital on Thursday, aiming at what Israel said was a Palestinian militant "command center.