The former rebel stronghold of Jobar points to the challenges facing the new government as it embarks on rebuilding a broken country.

The head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said on Saturday meetings he had with Syria's new ...

The head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), a global non-proliferation agency, will meet ...

The ancient Romans were great builders, especially known for their aqueducts. These are still standing today because they ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

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A prominent media professor has been arrested and suspended for her alleged role in helping the Assad regime persecute ...

Ad Policy Newspapers inn Tehran, Iran, report that Donald Trump has officially taken office as president of United States, on ...

A local pilgrimage that kicked off in January in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis offers an opportunity to celebrate the newly canonized Martyrs of Damascus and to, in prayer, walk ...

The Palestinian Health Ministry says two Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in the occupied West Bank overnight and into Wednesday. A 23-year-old man was shot dead in Tulkarem and a ...

Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus bookstores, no ...

Russia’s deputy foreign minister and a special envoy arrived in Damascus. Theirs was the first such visit since President ...