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 ...

Some restaurants and coffee shops in Syria were closed during the day as observant Muslims began fasting during the holy ...

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

Thousands of Jews left Syria in 1992, when they were allowed to emigrate. The visit by a small delegation of U.S.-based ...

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

DAMASCUS - On a wintry night in Damascus ... roots in transnational jihad towards a more moderate form of political Islam based on Syrian nationalism, in tune with the approach of Islamist ...

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.