Three months after the overthrow of President Bashar Assad, Syria is at a crossroads, the top U.N. envoy for the country says ...

Wearing orange safety vests, more than a thousand Syrian municipal workers from sanitation, electricity, water, and maintenance sectors sat shoulder-to-shoulder for a communal iftar under the soft ...

Step back in time as we explore the breathtaking history of Damascus, the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world!

On that first morning, many feared the worst. Firas Lutfi, a Franciscan priest in the old city of Damascus, told me that a group of 20-odd Shiite men came to his church and said, “You have to ...

Damascus, often described as the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world, held a unique place in the Islamic imagination, which was the case during the life of Ibn Arabi. The city had long ...

The trove of papers, seen by AFP, unveils the Fourth Division’s widespread exploitation of Syria’s war-torn economy, spanning ...

The Eagles of Antioch is a group of volunteers who stand watch over Christian neighborhoods in Damascus, protecting shrines, ...

Claiming that the suburb 3km southeast of Damascus is a Druze city under threat, Netanyahu and his Defence Minister Israel Katz instructed their troops to “prepare to defend” Jaramana.

The airport was shut during the offensive that toppled Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad. Read more at straitstimes.com.

But Bashar al-Assad's regime never recognised it and, despite his fall from power, its future remains uncertain. As well as more than a decade of civil war, the Syrian Kurds have faced years of ...