Syria’s interim president on Thursday signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule while promising to protect the rights of all Syrians for five years during a ...

Syria's new de facto government faces a host of challenges. ... She welcomes NPR into her dim apartment one night, smartphone light in hand. She gets power only once every seven to eight hours.

Syria's government announces a new Constitution even as it struggles to unite the country Just over three ... The neighbors said the apartment that had been hit had been vacant for years, and ...

When the dust settled, the March massacre claimed the lives of at least 1,700 Alawites. Ziad, currently in Lebanon and ...

After decades of dictatorship and 13 years of civil war, can Syria put itself back together? Our journalists traveled the ...

Also Thursday, an Israeli airstrike struck an apartment building in a suburb of the capital, wounding three people, one of them critically, Syria’s state media and a paramedic group said.

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria's new government has agreed to give inspectors from the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog access to suspected former nuclear sites immediately, the agency’s head ...

The Syrian dictator's extended family bought up at least 20 Moscow apartments worth more than £30 million in recent years, illustrating Russia's status as a safe haven for the clan.

A suspected Israeli airstrike reportedly hit near a Russian airbase in Syria. AFP via Getty Images The airline has previously been accused of transporting weapons for Iran’s Islamic ...

BEIRUT — The death toll from two days of clashes between security forces and loyalists of ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more than 600, a ...

President Bashar al-Assad has left Syria behind, fleeing to Russia with his family and leaving his once-impenetrable Damascus mansion to be ransacked by militants and rebels. Members of Jaish al ...

Also Thursday, an Israeli airstrike struck an apartment building in a suburb of the capital, wounding three people, one of them critically, Syria’s state media and a paramedic group said.