Thirty-three women and girls from Syria's Alawite sect have been abducted or gone missing this year in the turmoil following ...

People cross the Nahr al-Kabir river, forming the border between Syria's western coastal province and northern Lebanon in the Hekr al-Daher area on March 11, 2025, as families of Syria's Alawite ...

The new president of Syria is a tall, bearded man named Ahmed al-Sharaa who looks dapper in a fine Western suit (as did Arafat before him), Sharaa is better known by his nom de guerre, Abu ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon, March 11 (UPI) --Syria's fragile transition from decades of the Assad family's brutal rule has been greatly shaken with an outburst of sectarian retribution and killings, posing a ...

History What Went Wrong. Syria had long been under the control of the Ba'ath Party, which ruled the country since 1971. Bashar al-Assad took power in July 2000, following the death of his father ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria’s new rulers touted a long-awaited national dialogue conference Tuesday as a “rare historic opportunity” to rebuild the country after the fall of President Bashar ...

In the past, Abdulsalam would have tapped the Barada, an ancient river that winds its way down the Anti-Lebanon Mountains to Damascus, where it breaks into seven tributaries feeding the verdant ...

A suicide bomber in Syria opened fire then detonated an explosive vest inside a Greek Orthodox church filled with people praying on Sunday, killing at least 20 and wounding 52 others.

On Friday, Rock River Valley Blood Center employees and donors gathered at Lou Bachrodt Auto Mall in Cherry Valley for the 29th annual Straight From the Heart Valentine's Day blood drive.

Syria's battle lines are shifting amid a White House transition that has left a power vacuum. Trump has been a critic of the US's military presence in northeast Syria. In 2019, he ordered a ...

REinvent International Sales has scored several deals across its slate at the American Film Market, including “River of Blood,” “Together 99” and “Second Victims.” Directed by Howard J ...

Grave consequences await the West if Trump follows through with normalizing relations with Jolani’s new regime. President Donald Trump has decided to lift American sanctions on Syria. The ...