Israel carried out a series of powerful strikes on the Syrian capital Damascus Wednesday, escalating a campaign it says is in support of the country’s Druze population - an Arab minority group ...

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 ...

After US intervention, government troops withdraw from Sweida Syria's interim president says Israel is creating discord Turkish leader says Israel has shown it doesn't want peace Israel demands swathe ...

President Ahmed al-Shara said the airstrike on Damascus threatened to escalate sectarian violence, in his sharpest criticism of Israel since he came to power. By Christina Goldbaum and Euan Ward ...

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 ...