After Assad fled to Russia, Abu Tarek and other internally displaced people suddenly had new freedom to move about the country. He had been restricted to an area of about 50 kilometers during the ...

A contractor in Syria discovered an ancient underground Byzantine tomb complex believed to be 1,500 years old below a destroyed home. The grave site was found last month in the town of Maarat al ...

Item 1 of 4 Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani stands next to U.S. envoy for Syria Thomas Barrack as he raises the American flag at U.S. ambassador's residency in Damascus, Syria ...

The symbolic raising was the first time the U.S. flag had flown above Damascus since Washington shut down its embassy in 2012 in response to violence that eventually killed over 650,000 people ...

Last month's deadly church bombing outside Syria's capital is raising fears among the country's minority Christians. Some are ...

DAMASCUS, Syria -- Editor's Note: This story contains graphic descriptions of violence. Family members and friends of thousands of missing Syrians are continuing their search for those disappeared ...

A Syrian man reacts inside Mar Elias church where a suicide bomber detonated himself in Dweil'a in the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, Sunday June 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki) DAMASCUS, Syria (AFP ...

U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack, center, arrives to inaugurate the long-shuttered U.S. ambassador's residence in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, May 29, 2025.

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The U.S. flag was hoisted Thursday outside of the long-shuttered ambassador’s residence in Damascus, in a signing of growing ties between Washington and the new Syrian ...