Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani met Syria's new ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus Friday, state media said, in the latest such visit from a European diplomat since the fall of Bashar al-Assad.

Syrians returned on Wednesday to the national museum in Damascus, reopened for the first time since Islamist-led forces seized the capital and ousted president Bashar al-Assad. The antiquities ...

The Assad regime — first under Hafez Assad and then his son, Bashar — ensured that Damascus’s relations with the Druze community in the Golan remained strong, in part by offering them ...

They say the city seems theirs again. Mount Qasioun, which overlooks the Syrian capital, Damascus, is being revived as a leisure spot. Residents of Syria’s capital are picnicking on a once ...

Syria’s Damascus airport will resume international flights on Tuesday for the first time since Bashar al-Assad was overthrown last month by armed opposition fighters. No flights had taken off or ...

Weather warnings are in place for much of the UK today as the Met Office warns of snow and ice causing disruption across the country. The agency has issued yellow and amber warnings as it warns ...

The French and German foreign ministers have met Syria’s new de facto rulers in Damascus, marking the first ... asked the new government to avoid “acts of vengeance against groups within ...

An advocacy group said more than 4,000 people were freed from the detention facility when rebel forces took Damascus on December ... the new regime to avoid "acts of vengeance against groups ...