Syria’s civil war drove a wedge between the residents of the small town of Maaloula, where two-thirds are Christian and ...

Those kidnapped included a retired teacher, an engineering student and a mechanic, all of them Alawite - the minority sect of ...

With the country's new transitional government now in place, there are hopes this famous old city will begin to recover.

Trying to rebuild a war-ravaged country without humanitarian aid or sanction relief is like trying to get up with a boot on ...

In latest wave of attacks, Israel strikes Damascus’s Barzeh neighbourhood and ‘military capabilities’ in Hama and Homs.

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

The Israeli army carried out multiple airstrikes in different parts of Syria on Wednesday, including the capital Damascus, ...

Residents of southwestern Syria say they fear the prospect of an all-out war between Israel and Syria’s new authorities.

Smoke billows following an Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of Damascus on December 8, 2024, after Islamist-led rebels declared that they have taken the Syrian capital in a lightning offensive (AFP ...

Israel stepped up airstrikes on Syria, declaring the attacks a warning to the new Islamist rulers in Damascus as it accused ...

(photo credit: Khalil Ashawi/Reuters) Close to midnight on March 6, as a wave of sectarian killings began in western Syria, masked men stormed the homes of Alawite families in the capital Damascus ...