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

Most of the Dura-Europos synagogue frescoes, radiant with naive charm and poetic enchantment, tell Old Testament stories ...

Syria’s interim president on Thursday signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule while ...

Lebanese and Syrian defense officials reached an agreement late Monday for a ceasefire to halt two days of clashes along the ...

A 19th-century Sunni sheik, Ibrahim al-Maghribi, decreed that Muslims might freely take Alawite property and lives, and a ...

More than 700 civilians of the Alawite religious minority have been killed, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says.

The law will take its course on all," he told Reuters from the Damascus presidential palace ... the helm of a guerrilla movement that broke off from Al Qaeda, the 42-year-old son of an Arab ...

Hundreds of mourners have attended the funeral of one of the victims of an Israeli airstrike on the Syrian city of Daraa, in ...

A helicopter tours across AlUla sky A thin, unwavering line cuts across the landscape — the remnants of the Hejaz Railway that once linked Damascus to Medina ... dating from 500 BC to 1100 AD.