The suicide bombing at a Mar Elias church in Damascus on Sunday has laid bare the difficulties Syria’s new President Ahmad Al Shara faces in dealing with the very militants who helped him to overthrow ...

Authorities blamed the Islamic State for a suicide bombing at a church outside Damascus, citing preliminary investigations.

Syria's banks, long-time pariahs in the global financial system, are expected to resume ties with international lenders ...

Along with signs of progress as Syria emerges from the devastation of a 13-year civil war and more than 50 years of ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union imposed on Monday an asset freeze and a ban on travel to the EU on five people linked ...

Syria's top Christian leader said on Tuesday at the funeral for victims of a deadly church bombing that President Ahmed ...

In a stunning shift in Middle Eastern politics, Syria, under the leadership of Bashar al-Assad, has rejoined the Arab League ...

Assad, a cousin of toppled leader Bashar al-Assad, state news agency SANA said on Saturday.Wassim al-Assad was sanctioned by ...

It's shortly before midnight in Damascus, and the crowd at a Bab Sharqi nightclub in the heart of the Syrian capital are ...

Syrian authorities have arrested a cousin of former President Bashar Assad, who is under U.S. sanctions for his alleged role ...

DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Syrian Christians were struggling on Monday to understand why their community was targeted in a suicide ...

After one of the most brutal wars of this century, a new flag flies across Syria: the emblem of the rebels who toppled the dictator Bashar al-Assad. Ben Hubbard, The New York Times’s Istanbul bureau ...