A prison in Syria holds about 4,500 members of the Islamic State group who have been there for years without trial.

As a state that maintained de facto peace with Israel without a treaty, Syria posed great benefits to both ... of chemical weapons in Ghouta outside Damascus. It proposed a deal between the ...

Gaziantep carpet makers in southeastern Türkiye have started working to renovate the carpets of the historical Umayyad Mosque in Damascus. After the fall of the Assad regime, as life begins to ...

Dr Hazem Bakleh, Sarc’s new president, is pictured with a “free Syria” flag behind his desk at the organisation’s Damascus headquarters ... at around 50 per cent capacity to prevent ...

The new commander of the old city of Damascus was miffed. Syria’s new de facto leader ... At a recent Friday service in a mosque in an upmarket part of Damascus, the ambassadors of Saudi ...

Nevertheless, it does appear that Putin stood down over Syria. A top military figure in Iran just gave a Mosque speech saying, in effect, that Russia sold out. According to a New York Times ...

the iconic mosque has seen a significant increase in visitors, especially on Fridays. Assad, Syria's leader for nearly 25 years, fled to Russia after anti-regime groups took control of Damascus on ...

DAMASCUS (AP) — Intelligence officials in Syria's new de facto government thwarted a plan by the Islamic State group to set off a bomb at a Shiite shrine in the Damascus suburb of Sayyida Zeinab ...

Its leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, who is now the de facto leader of Syria, has emphasized religious harmony since taking power in Damascus. Sharaa was in the past critical of ISIS, describing its self ...

Syria's new ruler and Lebanon's prime minister pledged Saturday to build lasting ties during the first visit by a Lebanese head of government to Damascus ... and Lebanon have great shared ...

These newcomers allegedly demonstrate pragmatism, moderation, and capacity for ... in the Umayyad Mosque, after Syria's Bashar al-Assad was ousted, in Damascus, Syria, December 27, 2024.

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati arrived in Damascus Saturday (January 11, 2025) in the first such visit since before civil war broke out in Syria in 2011. His visit comes as the neighbouring ...