The Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, has claimed its first attack on the new Syrian government's forces since ...

Aref Shamtan, 73, preferred to pitch a tent near his destroyed home in northwest Syria rather than stay in a camp for the ...

Syrian refugees living in Lebanon grapple with whether to return home now that Bashar al-Assad's dictatorship has fallen. Many are hesitating. Something like 6 million Syrians face a decision.

Alaa Hassan was 25 years old when the uprisings against Bashar al-Assad began in Syria. He was part of the movement that grew ...

Ministers are facing calls to start processing Syrian asylum applications again, as new figures showed more than 7,000 people ...

A shrine on the outskirts of Damascus has long been a prominent destination for Shias from around the world. Its golden dome ...

It would take four full days for the government to restore a semblance of order on the coast. In the meantime, the death toll was immense. The Syrian Network for Human Rights, a watchdog group, ...

From her apartment in Damascus, Najwa Harba treats around 40 patients traumatized by their time in the jails of the former ...

Bashar al-Assad’s regime had withstood more than a ... 3 million Syrian refugees – many of whom it hopes will return home now that Assad’s government is gone. For Iraq and Lebanon, this ...

A day later in Qardaha, the ancestral home of Bashar al-Assad, the deposed president, locals attacked a police station after the authorities set up a checkpoint and shot a protester. That evening ...

Syria’s minister of social affairs and labor says the lifting of sanctions will allow her government to begin work on daunting tasks that include fighting corruption and bringing millions of refugees ...

For weeks, Ziad Abu al-Dahab has been training for gold at an equestrian tournament near Damascus -- in a sport once ...