The toppling of Bashar Assad has raised tentative hopes that Syrians might live peacefully and as equals after a half century ...

Even with hopes running high, so much can go wrong when a country ousts a longtime dictator and tries to start anew.

Palestinian health officials say an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in central Gaza killed at least seven ...

US diplomats have arrived in Syria to speak directly to the new Islamist-led rulers, hoping to encourage a moderate, ...

President Joe Biden may not always be aware of his surroundings or activities, but he surely knows that Christmas is ...

Syria’s nearly 14-year-old civil war fragmented the country, crumbled the economy and created fertile ground for the ...

A victorious Abu Mohammed al-Golani, a former leader of the al-Qaida branch in Syria, stepped into the historic Umayyad Mosque in Damascus like the conquering hero. Thousands of Syrians displaced by ...

Thousands celebrate fall of Assad amid fears chemical weapons could fall into wrong hands - Fears are growing that terrorist ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan says that Turkey’s Embassy in Syria’s capital of Damascus will reopen on Saturday, for the first time since 2012 ...

In Damascus, people stood shoulder to shoulder at one of Syria's holiest sites, the Umayyad Mosque, in the first Friday ...