Less than two weeks after Ahmad al-Sharaa ousted Bashar al-Assad in Syria, a U.S. State Department delegation arrived in ...

The History That Syria’s New Leaders Will Need to Overcome. 9 minute read. A broken portrait of Bashar al-Assad is seen on on the ground at Mezzah Military Airport on Dec. 16, 2024, in Damascus.

The June 22 attack on the Mar Elias Church in Damascus underscores the threat of extremism in Syria even after the fall of ...

Divine Liturgies were celebrated on Sunday, June 30, in Damascus, Syria — albeit with significantly lower attendance due to a ...

Hama, Homs, Damascus – all again in the headlines overnight because of the regime’s swift fall, yet too home to the most heinous parts of its history – respectively the 1982 massacre of ...

In 1946, the French left Syria, marking the country’s independence. This ushered in a quarter century of instability, marked by frequent coups, military revolts, and civil disorders.

Syria's Interior Ministry says the sleeper cell behind a deadly church explosion near Damascus belonged to the Islamic State ...

OPINION: Guest writer. OPINION | JIM LANCASTER: Syria and history. Christianity owes much to nation. December 20, 2024 at 2:15 a.m. by JIM LANCASTER Special to the Democrat-Gazette ...

Rami Alsayed/NurPhoto via Getty Images(DAMASCUS, SYRIA) -- He's a former al-Qaeda insurgent who fought against U.S. forces in Iraq and served time in the infamous Abu Ghraib prison. Still, on Wed ...

Syrian rebels seized Damascus on Sunday, and long-time President Bashar Assad fled the battle-scarred country amid the stunning collapse of his regime after 13 years of war. Assad and his family ...

Hama, Homs, Damascus – all again in the headlines overnight because of the regime’s swift fall, yet too home to the most heinous parts of its history – respectively the 1982 massacre of ...