The Trump administration is granting Syria a waiver from one crippling set of sanctions as well as easing restrictions on ...

President Donald Trump's advisers are proposing that he grant Syria a six-month waiver from one crippling set of sanctions as ...

Many in Syria want to enshrine remnants of their recent history, not only to remember it, but as a cautionary tale.

One of the oldest known baby rattles was found in an infant burial in northern Mesopotamia, dating to the Ubaid period between 5300 and 5000 B.C., according to the study. The rattles became widespread ...

A journalist returns to Damascus and Aleppo to find a people cautiously rebuilding life amid ruins and uncertainties.

Syria's capital, Damascus, is suffering from its worst water shortages in years as a result of the lowest rainfall in more ...

On 15 May, the number of Syrians who have returned to the country since the fall of the previous government passed half a million – an average rate of 100,000 returns a month. But despite the palpable ...

Last December, after more than a decade of fighting, forces opposing President Bashar al-Assad ousted him from power. Some ...

Jolani was a prisoner in Camp Bucca, the US prison in Iraq, for several years until released in 2011, ‘coincidentally’ at the ...

Sifting through the tan dirt of northern Iraq, archaeologists looked at the remnants of an ancient empire’s capital city.