For weeks, Israel has engaged in back-channel talks over a diplomatic agreement with the Syrian government. Its strikes on ...

Israel launched airstrikes against targets in Syria in Wednesday, following days of sectarian violence in the southern region ...

The sky over Damascus turned gray with smoke on Wednesday as Israeli airstrikes struck the headquarters of Syria’s defense ministry, ...

Animation (circular sky view) of a Sentinel-2 satellite image of Tehran, the capital of Iran, taken on June 15, 2025 VIDEOGRAPHIC ...

Billboards thanking President Trump have popped up across Damascus, Syria’s capital city. CNN’s Clarissa Ward meets the woman trying to “Make Syria Great Again.” ...

US President Donald Trump’s announcement that the United States will remove longstanding sanctions on Syria is a critical step toward improving Syrians’ access to fundamental economic rights ...

Trump meets with Syria’s interim president, a first between the nations’ leaders in 25 years By ZEKE MILLER, JON GAMBRELL and AAMER MADHANI The Associated Press, Updated May 14, 2025, 12:27 p.m.

The accounts by the dozen witnesses in Damascus, however, indicate that sectarian violence unfolded in the southern edges of Syria's capital, a few kilometres from the presidential palace.

Syria's new government has formed a committee to investigate reported mass revenge killings of a minority group - after the United Nations human rights chief called for "swift actions".

Israel’s defense ministry on Saturday said the military has been instructed to prepare to defend a Druze settlement in the suburbs of Damascus.

DAMASCUS, Syria — A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital, an essential link between Europe and the Arabian Peninsula during the Ottoman Empire and then a national ...