Shara’s unlikely path from membership in Al Qaeda to head of state has raised questions about how he intends to govern Syria.

The country’s new leaders had billed a two-day “national dialogue” in Damascus as the start of a process to build an ...

Assad's regime never recognised it and, despite his fall from power, its future remains uncertain. As well as more than a ...

Syria faces major challenges, from rebuilding an economy and war-wrecked infrastructure to setting up a new constitution and ...

On Dec. 8, after nearly 54 years in power and 13 years of war, the Syrian civil war came to an end ... where they stayed for three and a half years before coming to the U.S. as refugees in 2015. When ...

Before the Syrian uprising that began in 2011 and soon escalated into a brutal civil war, Palmyra was Syria’s main tourist ..

Syria has held a wide-based conference on the country's future after the ouster of Bashar Assad. But although the interim ...

The Arab head of the UN Development Program (UNDP) on Thursday described the 14-year civil war in Syria as one of the "deadliest conflicts in recent history," with “90% of the population” in ...

Aljamal was born in the United States but lived in Barzeh, a town north of Damascus, for several years before the war ... in Syria fondly. At the same time, she grew up hearing the stories of her ...

As Rabbi Yusuf Hamra and his son Henry were visiting Damascus this week for the first time since emigrating from Syria to the ...

Years after the Syrian war’s worst massacres and mass disappearances, most alleged crimes have not been investigated and ...

Before the Syrian uprising that began in 2011 and soon escalated into a brutal civil war, Palmyra was Syria ... The Islamic State group demolished the prison after capturing the town.