Sharaa, whose fighters led the offensive that toppled the Assad family dynasty in December, has said he will build an ...

- The Christians are split into a number of denominations - some of them tiny communities with ancient roots in pre-Islamic ...

I went to Halbouni Mosque, near the historic center of Damascus, for Tarawih prayers. The streets were pitch dark, as the city experiences frequent power cuts at night. When I arrived, I found the ...

Early on Friday morning, a group of Syrian men crossed into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights through a UN-monitored buffer ...

Syria's Islamist-led government on Monday said it had completed a military operation against a nascent insurgency by Bashar ...

As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...

Syria’s interim president has told worshippers at a mosque in Damascus “national unity and civil peace” must be maintained, as the death toll reportedly exceeds 1,000.

Hundreds of civilians were killed in coastal areas after deadly clashes broke out. Read more at straitstimes.com.

More than 700 civilians of the Alawite religious minority have been killed, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human ...

(Reuters) - Syria has suffered its worst bloodshed since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power, with more than 1,000 people ...

An NPR investigation finds that more than 350 Syrian children were secretly placed in orphanages across the capital, Damascus, when the Assad regime was in power. Now, some of them cannot be found.

DAMASCUS - Syria's Islamist-led government ... As government reinforcements deployed, mosques in regions loyal to the new administration began calling on people to wage jihad, or holy struggle ...