Syria’s president has received a Republican member of Congress in the first visit to the country by American legislators ...

A pair of Republican Congress members have arrived in the Syrian capital on an unofficial visit organized by a ...

Two Republican congressmen were expected to meet the country’s new leaders and to visit areas destroyed during the long civil ...

DAMASCUS — Naveen Mahmoud was out running errands when an alarmed neighbor called: The conservative Muslim rebels who ousted Syria's dictator late last year had arrived to shut down the trendy ...

Scores of U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters left two neighborhoods in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo Friday as part of a deal ...

In the city, young people tore down posters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. With the capture of Homs, the rebels now control a strategic center in Syria and a key crossroads linking Damascus ...

As the police undergo reorganization and redeployment, volunteers, some of whom are armed, take turns guarding the Christian ...

"Palmyra, the ancient city, is like our mother," said Mohammed ... for safekeeping after the start of the civil war. In Damascus, the Syrian government's interim head of antiquities, Anas Haj ...

“Syria’s priorities are ... Firas Lutfi, a Franciscan priest in the old city of Damascus, told me that a group of 20-odd Shiite men came to his church and said, “You have to protect us.” ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Sahar Diab had visited Damascus ... who came to the Umayyad Mosque from the city of Homs. “You go out … and you don’t know whether you’ll return home or not.” ...

Palmyra was considered one of the world's most intact ancient Roman sites. ISIS blew up many key monuments of this storied ...