Assad’s regime was toppled, Charlie Smart, a reporter at The New York Times, traveled to a mass burial site in Syria to ...

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

Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) on Wednesday filed text to permanently repeal legislation that imposed strict sanctions on Syria, following President Trump’s move to unwind penalties on the country ...

The longtime enemies have opened contacts, reflecting a power shift across a Middle East in which they have newfound common ...

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A cemetery near Damascus was transformed into an industrial-scale mass grave for Syrians who opposed President Bashar ...

Allies of the new Syrian government and other non-state actors have continued violence and discrimination against Christians ...

For decades, Lebanon has been torn apart by internal division and external conflict. There may currently be a narrow window ...

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

The United States government has revoked its designation of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham as a foreign terrorist organization, seven ...

Thousands of Syria’s Jews left in recent decades. But after Assad’s ouster and easing of sanctions, they can now reconnect ...

It has been seven months since Bashar al-Assad was ousted from power in Syria, thrusting the country into a new era after 54 ...