The church bells still ring in Syria’s ancient Christian enclaves, but their sound carries a bittersweet resonance. Two weeks ...

A senior diplomat has announced that the United States is dropping a $10m reward for the arrest of Syria’s new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, after an uprising that toppled President Bashar al-Assad.

The number of US troops in Syria has regularly surged higher than the Pentagon has publicly disclosed since at least 2020, and in recent months increased to more than double the roughly 900 troops ...

President Bashar al-Assad, who wielded fear and force over Syria for more than two decades, fled the country under the cover of night — and a fake political address. A banner of former President ...

The Islamic State spread from Iraq into Syria, and Syria’s Kurdish ethnic minority created an autonomous region. Some of the armed groups that gained territory during the civil war also fought ...

Top U.S. officials are in Syria making the first face-to-face contact with rebel groups that took over the country in a lightning offensive earlier this month, their mission aimed at searching for ...

The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said its forces had conducted an airstrike that killed ISIS leader Abu Yusif in eastern Syria. One other ISIS operative was also killed in the strike that ...

QAMISHLI, Syria, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Thousands of women rallied in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli on Monday to demand the new Islamist rulers in Damascus respect women's rights and to ...

Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets in Christian areas of Damascus early Tuesday to protest the burning of a Christmas tree near Hama in central Syria, AFP journalists witnessed. "We ...

The sudden downfall of longtime Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the hands of a rapid rebel offensive has brought a dramatic new turn to Syria's nearly 14-year civil war. While opponents of the ...