On Thursday, Reuters reported that the “United States is preparing to establish a military presence at an airbase in Damascus to help enable a security pact that Washington is brokering between Syria ...

Israel carried out multiple airstrikes on the outskirts of Syria’s capital of Damascus, Syrian state media said, denting efforts to ease tensions between the neighboring countries. The attacks on ...

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Syria’s authorities announced Thursday the arrest of a cell affiliated with the Lebanese paramilitary group Hezbollah in Damascus, in the latest move targeting the Iran-backed group following the fall ...

Many in the capital worry that the secular freedoms they enjoyed under the Assad regime are under threat from the new Islamist government. By Vivian Yee and Hwaida Saad Photographs by Nanna Heitmann ...