Comics had already been trying to foster stand-up in Syria before Bashar al-Assad’s fall. Now, they are telling jokes in a ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s top diplomat, defense minister and intelligence chief paid a sudden visit to Damascus on Thursday, ...

The attack Thursday near the port city of Latakia reopened the wounds of the country’s 13-year civil war and sparked the ...

Over the weekend, many watched in horror as reports poured out of Syria detailing the slaughter of Christians and other ...

Syrians had remained silent about the bodies dumped in countless basements by Assad’s forces. Rescue teams now are moving ...

Oweis said Syrian forces looted hundreds of Christian homes during the assault on Alawite communities between the coastal towns of Tartus and Latakia. Jihadis stormed the home of Oweis’s friend and ...

When new rulers with jihadi roots took power in Damascus, artists, singers and dancers held their breath. They can relax, the ...

More than 1,000 people have been killed in sectarian violence in Syria’s Latakia region. For the Kurds, the bloodshed only ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — In the days after the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, rescue workers began ... fixing walls damaged in the battles, and then painting them green and gold.

BEIRUT (AP) — The Haydar family huddled in their apartment while gunmen stalked their hometown of Baniyas, hunting for ...

Down a winding, stone-gray alleyway in Damascus’s ancient city center, a small door opens to a large, sunny atrium. Inside, ...