A U.S. envoy says that Syria’s central government and the Kurds remain at odds over plans on merging their forces after the ...

Giant billboards of Donald Trump and Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa have appeared in Damascus, thanking Trump for lifting U ...

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa hosted Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Commander Mazloum Abdi and US Special Envoy to Syria ...

Israel’s goal is to collapse Lebanon through triggering civil war and any move to normalize ties with Tel Aviv would ...

As well as being optimistic about the future of his war-ravaged country, Rami Al Ali has other reasons to be upbeat: he is ...

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Shiite rituals for Ashoura in Damascus have drastically changed after the fall of Syria's former President Bashar Assad ...

BEIRUT – A little-known Sunni Muslim extremist group claimed responsibility on June 24 for a weekend suicide attack on a Damascus church, as the city mourned those killed. The June 22 attack ...

Syria announced on Tuesday evening the arrest of all members of the terrorist ISIS (Daesh) cell responsible for the weekend bombing of a Greek Orthodox church in the capital Damascus. At a press ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — The sleeper cell behind a deadly church bombing near Damascus belonged to the Islamic State group, which had plans to target a Shiite shrine in a similar attack, Syria 's ...