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Seven months after the fall of Syria's former president Bashar al-Assad, FRANCE 24’s Wassim Nasr gained rare access to sites ...

Three years later Swaggart was pulled over by police in California with a prostitute in his car. She testified that he had ...

Last month's deadly church bombing outside Syria's capital is raising fears among the country's minority Christians. Some are ...

The United States must press the Syrian Transitional Government to bring the perpetrators of the Saint Elias Church attack to ...

Britain reestablished full diplomatic relations with Syria on Saturday, more than a decade after cutting ties, as Foreign ...

Rail travel once linked Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, until war and air traffic shut it down. Now, major reconstruction plans aim to revive it over the next 15 years ...

Spotting a rare foreigner in the southern Syrian city of Nawa, Khalil approaches with a business proposal: bring him a “very ...

Churches across Syria held funeral services for the victims of the suicide bombing that targeted St. Elias Church in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Sunday.

The discovery emerged last month in the town of Maarat al-Numan in Idlib province, which is strategically located on the route between the cities of Aleppo and Damascus.

DAMASCUS, Syria — An American flag was hoisted outside of the long-shuttered U.S. ambassador’s residence in Damascus on Thursday, in a sign of growing ties between Washington and the new ...

A sprawling Roman era mosaic was recently discovered underneath a home in Syria, photos show. Measuring about 14 feet across, it depicts the goddess of luck.