Among the sacred places mentioned in Islamic sources are Mecca, Sinai, and Jerusalem, but also Syria (the Shām) and ...

Syrian producer Mohammad al-Shebli was helping to translate the anguished messages scrawled on cell walls by prisoners of the brutal Assad regime made a heart-wrenching discovery.

The Assad regime cultivated ethnic and religious divides that threaten Syria's future even after the dynasty's fall.

After fifty-four years of Assad family dictatorship collapsed in a few days, a new Syria is going to be born. Every decent ...

Hope and uncertainty fill the streets of Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. The challenges of rebuilding are enormous ...

Hundreds of people have protested in Christian areas of the Syrian capital of Damascus after a video emerged showing hooded fighters setting a Christmas tree on fire elsewhere in the country.

With the stunning change of leadership in Syria and the end of a 50-year reign of the Assad regime, the significance of religious history in Syria shouldn't be overlooked. Most Syrians are now Muslim, ...

The tiny Jewish community in Damascus was not targeted during the overthrow of the Assad regime by rebel groups last week, one of its members told Israeli broadcaster Kan on Saturday. He stated ...

HUSSEINIYEH, Syria (AP) — A rebel force deployed to a village in southeastern Damascus to stop looters who swarmed a residential complex and set some apartments on fire. The raid by the rebel ...

For the first time in a decade, US diplomats are in Damascus to hold official meetings with Syria's new de facto rulers led ...

The Israeli military has ordered another evacuation in central Gaza ahead of an offensive in the area, even as Israel and the ...