Assad’s government in December 2024 created new possibilities to ensure accountability for years of atrocity crimes and the opportunity to establish a new government that respects human rights.

But as a new government takes shape in Damascus, Syrians and foreign observers alike worry about how inclusive, ...

The news outlet Israel Hayom reported that Defence Minister Israel Katz chaired a small ministerial meeting on Tuesday ...

“My departure from Syria was neither planned nor did it occur during the final hours of the battles, as some have claimed. On the contrary, I remained in Damascus, carrying out my duties until ...

Intelligence officials in Syria’s new de facto government say they have thwarted a plan by the Islamic State group to set off a bomb at a Shiite shrine in the Damascus suburb of Sayyida Zeinab ...

"Our problem is not with Israel. We don't want to meddle in anything that will threaten Israel's security," Damascus Governor Maher Marwan tells NPR. Syria and Israel have never had diplomatic ties.

“We are traveling to Damascus today to offer our support ... Some Syrians say the move is a worrying sign of how the former ...

Syrian Civil Defense, known as the White Helmets, carry one of several bodies and human remains that were found dropped at an open field on a road that links to Damascus international airport, in ...

The two Mideast powerhouses have been trying to block the rise of Islamist groups in the region for two decades. The rebel ...

Senior U.S. diplomats visiting Damascus on Friday met with ... insurgents from taking advantage of the upheaval in Syria, including any plan to release the more than 8,000 ISIS prisoners held ...

Former Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus, Syria in November 2019. Ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s departure from the country was unplanned, according to a statement posted ...

Intelligence officials in Syria's new de facto government thwarted a plan by the Islamic State group to set off a bomb at a ...