Violent evictions from the informal Alawite neighborhood of al-Somoriyeh are part of a deeper story: longstanding property disputes with the neighboring town of Moadamiyat al-Sham, whose residents ...

Explore the story of the Damascus Jews and their historic quarter, where only a few remain to share their heritage.

A Syrian commission for missing persons estimated that between 120,000 and 300,000 people have gone missing during more than five decades of authoritarian rule by the al-Assad family. Mohammed Reda ...

Syrian security forces stormed the rundown Damascus suburb in late August, toting guns, swords and eviction orders. In their ...

Former Lebanese President Amine Gemayel said that the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad viewed Lebanon the same way the late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein viewed Kuwait. He added that Assad ...

For many years, Ragheed Tatari's family assumed he had died in Syria's hellish prison system — LOUAI BESHARA Syrian fighter pilot Ragheed Tatari was 26 when he was arrested. Now 70, the country's ...

ON DECEMBER 8, 2024, the government of Bashar al-Assad collapsed as the army of the former al-Qaida leader Ahmad al-Sharaa ...

Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday afternoon that at least 1,429 people were killed in the recent chemical weapons attack in Syria, including at least 426 children — evidence meant to bolster ...

Syrian government forces clashed with “remnants” of the ousted regime Bashar al-Assad, thrusting the Middle East nation’s new leaders into the biggest crisis since seizing power in December. The ...

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 sanctions ...

(Reuters) -Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa's hopes of stitching Syria back together under the rule of his Islamist-led government are complicated by the country's mix of sectarian and ethnic groups.

Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa will deliver Syria's speech at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting in New York in September, sources close to new administration in Syria said on ...