Bars in the Christian areas of Damascus have been on high alert after recent attacks that targeted establishments serving ...

NPR's Ruth Sherlock is in the capitol of Damascus. Hi ... entering Syria, you met people going the other direction, fleeing the country. Why? SHERLOCK: That's right. The vast majority of people ...

Syria's former president Bashar al-Assad is in Moscow after fleeing Damascus, Russian state media ... the country's notorious Saydnaya prison that people are being detained in hidden underground ...

BEIRUT-Islamist-led rebels on Dec 8 declared the end of President Bashar al-Assad’s rule in Syria, saying they had ousted him as they swept into the capital Damascus and sent him fleeing.

The mostly ethnic Kurdish revelers in the northeastern city Qamishli chanted, “One, one, one — the Syrian people are one ... single central authority in Damascus. Malak Ibrahim, a Kurdish ...

Investigators learned that he had initially been taken to a prison in Damascus and was seen by a doctor, according to two people familiar ... The dictator resigned, fleeing the Syrian capital ...

At Umayyad Square in central Damascus, tens of thousands of people had the party of a lifetime ... sending Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fleeing to Russia. Friday’s huge crowds started ...