Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa has made his first visit to the United Arab Emirates. The UAE's leaders have been ...

Young Syrian children, refugees of their country's grinding civil war, playfully grab paint brushes and rollers nearly as big as they are in this windswept desert camp, adding splashes of bright ...

Some of the worst violence in years drives members of a minority sect linked to fallen Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad to flee ...

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The Syrian government must ensure that the perpetrators of a wave of mass killings targeting Alawite civilians in coastal ...

The longest-serving political prisoner under the regime is now revered as a hero. ‘I was always free here,’ he declares, ...

Syria's Foreign Ministry says an Israeli strike in a southwestern village has killed at least six people as Israeli troops ...

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Lebanon's president ordered troops to retaliate for gunfire from the Syrian side of the border after renewed fighting broke out overnight along the frontier. (AP Photo/Omar Albam) ...

Syrian source tells Reuters that T-4 airfield 'is totally unusable now'; Turkish FM says Ankara not seeking conflict with ...