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Damascus, Syria, holds the record as the world's oldest continuously inhabited city, surviving for over 11,000 years. Despite wars, empires, and revolutions, life persists through ancient ...

Syria's Interior Ministry says the sleeper cell behind a deadly church explosion near Damascus belonged to the Islamic State ...

The Damascus neighborhood of the man who has been leading Syria's new caretaker government celebrates his new role and reflects on the last 14 years of civil war.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot has pledged support to Syria while on a joint visit with Germany's Annalena Baerbock to Damascus. "A few weeks ago, a new hope was created, the hope of a ...

Syria's new de facto government faces a host of challenges. One of its most pressing is also one of its most basic: keeping the lights on.

Both the SDF and the authorities in Damascus have been sending positive signals about their talks on the future of Syria’s northeast and the Kurds.

BERLIN/PARIS - The foreign ministers of Germany and France said they wanted to forge a new relationship with Syria and urged a peaceful transition as they visited Damascus on Friday meet its de ...

Syria: The historic fall of the Assad regime The Islamist-led rebels announced the end of Bashar al-Assad's reign on Sunday after a lightning offensive. No one knows where the deposed leader is.

DAMASCUS, Syria—The people of Syria said good riddance in the past month to the dictatorship that ruled for half a century. They have no idea what is coming next.

The foreign ministers of Germany and France said they wanted to forge a new relationship with Syria and urged a peaceful transition as they visited Damascus on Friday meet its de facto new leader ...