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Just a few days after the liberation of Syria, leading to the end of the Assad rule, in December last year, humanitarian worker Saadettin Muvakit fell upon a sorry sight: the neglected state of the ...

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

A suicide bomber who blew himself up at a Greek Orthodox church on the outskirts of Damascus on Sunday was a member of the Islamic State group, Syria's interior minister said. The attack killed at ...

Suicide Bombing at Damascus Church Kills at Least 20 The attack on a Greek Orthodox service made clear the challenges facing Syria’s new government in a country long pitted by sectarian divides.

At least 20 people were killed and dozens injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the Mar Elias Church in the Dweila neighborhood of Syria’s capital Damascus on Sunday, health ...

The unexpected news lit up Damascus, the capital. Syrians have long struggled under one of the harshest sanctions regimes ever put in place.

Damascus, SANA-Amidst the trees in the garden of National Museum in Damascus, young Farouk Saies presented new models of the minarets of the Umayyad Mosque. This project, titled “The Fortress ...

Jaramana has long been dubbed “Little Syria,” not only due to its proximity to Damascus but also because it embodies the vibrant tapestry of Syrian diversity.

Israel announced that it had “attacked near the Presidential Palace in Damascus” in order to warn the new Syrian government against harming the country’s Druze population. The Syrian ...

NPR's Jane Arraf has more from Damascus. JANE ARRAF, BYLINE: Syria's president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, spoke at predawn prayers at a mosque on Sunday, urging peace.