The White Helmets did not dare set foot near Damascus for years after dictator Bashar al-Assad branded the famed civic ...

Sahar Diab had visited Damascus’ famed Umayyad Mosque previously. But as the Syrian lawyer went there to pray during her ...

AKRE. Iraq (AP) — Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and ...

In the 12th century, the Andalusian poet and traveler Ibn Jubayr described the agricultural lands around Damascus as “the ...

At the start of the new year, 115,000 Syrians had already returned home from Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. In December, the ...

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

Before Germany, Italy reopened its embassy last year before the fall of Assad, and Spain reopened its embassy after his ouster. Germany reopened its embassy in Damascus on Thursday, 13 years after ...

Syria faced severe violence, with security forces accused of mass killings in Alawite-majority areas. Over 1,000 civilians ...

The Kurdish-led group which governs northeast Syria on Friday rejected a constitutional declaration issued by the new Islamist leadership in Damascus and called for it to be rewritten. The United ...