By Feras Dalatey, Joanna Plucinska, Reade Levinson, Maha El Dahan DAMASCUS/LONDON/DUBAI (Reuters) -As his enemies closed in ...

Those kidnapped included a retired teacher, an engineering student and a mechanic, all of them Alawite - the minority sect of toppled leader Bashar al-Assad.

Trying to rebuild a war-ravaged country without humanitarian aid or sanction relief is like trying to get up with a boot on your neck.

The one thing holding Syria together now is Ahmed al-Sharaa, who has taken on the near-impossible job of teaching his people to trust one another again. It is an unlikely role for a former jihadist.

Speaking at the People's Palace in Damascus after the Eid al-Fitr holiday prayer, Al-Sharaa said: “Syria is writing a new history, and before us lies a long and difficult road. We possess all ...

Days before his troops overthrew the regime of Bashar Assad, Ahmad al-Sharaa declared that Syria deserves a system in which no “single ruler makes arbitrary decisions.” Sharaa, once a feared ...

A ceremony to announce the new Syrian government began Saturday with ... new state," Sharaa said at a ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Damascus. "This government will seek to open new ...

By Carlotta Gall and Christina Goldbaum Reporting from Damascus, Syria Syria’s interim president ... in a brightly lit hall in the presidential palace on a hill above Damascus.

Damascus, SANA- President of Syrian Arab Republic, Mr. Ahmad al-Sharaa, performed Eid al-Fitr prayer at People’s Palace prayer hall in Damascus, with a large public presence. The President ...

According to accounts from 13 witnesses in Damascus, however, the sectarian violence spread to the southern edges of Syria's capital, a few kilometres from the presidential palace. The details of ...