The land around Raqqa, which was a regular flash point in Syria’s nearly 14-year civil war, is littered with land mines, ...

Some 2 1/2 years after a massive earthquake destroyed parts of southern Turkey and northern Syria, both countries are still ...

For more than a decade, Syria’s multi-front civil war had raged, leaving the country divided and scarred. And for most of that time, the fighting showed little sign of stopping. Then ...

Our seven maps below illustrate how Syria became a country and the forces that have made it so unstable. Syria’s cities are among the oldest in the world, but the concept of Syria as a country ...

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

“The whole world should remember that the Syrian people suffered the worst crimes of the 21st century,” a Syrian military photographer and defector – codenamed Caesar – told me in a rare ...

Assad’s fall wiped out a bastion from which Iran and Russia exercised influence across the Arab world. Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris ...

BRUSSELS — International donors gathered on Monday in a show of support for Syria hoping to encourage the new leaders of the conflict-ravaged country toward a peaceful political transition ...

HIRRI, Syria — Mohammad Khalawi explains the devastation of Syria’s Deir al-Zour province through the scars left by the many conquerors who passed through during 13 years of civil war.

At least 28 people were killed by that celebratory gunfire, the Syrian health minister told Al-Arabiya news channel. Meanwhile, civilians broke into Assad’s palaces, looted shops and stole bags ...

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