A war monitor and an activist group say clashes broke out in the Syrian capital between local gunmen belonging to the ...

FILE - Talal Naji, the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command speaks during a press conference in Damascus, Syria, Jan. 21, 2008. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — At least 10 people were killed on Tuesday after clashes broke out in a suburb of the Syrian capital between local gunmen belonging to the minority Druze sect and pro ...

Israel said it attacked near the presidential palace in the capital, Damascus. Israel’s defense ... said on Thursday that Israel would “respond with great severity” if attacks on the Druse ...

Israel announced that it had “attacked near the Presidential Palace in Damascus” in order to warn the new Syrian government against harming the country’s Druze population. The Syrian ...

"This is a great mosque that does great work helping others in the community. They don't deserve this treatment and damage to their property." Minister for Home Affairs Tony Burke also denounced ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Syria on Saturday detained a prominent Damascus-based Palestinian official whose group was close to the government of ousted president Bashar Assad. Talal Naji, 79, the leader of ...

By Euan Ward Aaron Boxerman Hwaida Saad and Vivian Yee Euan Ward reported from Beirut, Lebanon, Aaron Boxerman from Jerusalem and Hwaida Saad and Vivian Yee from Damascus, Syria. April 30 ...

The trip comes after local community leader Bakhour Chamntoub said unknown assailants broke into and desecrated the tomb of a 17th-century rabbi in Damascus last week. Visiting Rabbi Henry Hamra ...

Two days of sectarian violence in the Damascus area and in southern Syria have left at least 100 people dead, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor. The Britain ...