In the second part of his address, Burns shifted the focus from Syria’s monuments to its current political tensions. He ...

The presence of armed young men in masks dotted around landmarks is the most unusual ... presence is a complicating factor in the new Syria. That one can now easily meet foreign jihadists in the ...

DARAYA, Syria (AP) — When Mariam Aabour learned of the ouster of Syrian leader Bashar Assad, she shed tears of joy. But as ...

Three months after the overthrow of President Bashar Assad, Syria is at a crossroads, the top U.N. envoy for the country says ...

The one thing holding Syria together now is Ahmed al-Sharaa, who has taken on the near-impossible job of teaching his people ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Sahar Diab had visited Damascus’ famed Umayyad Mosque previously. But as the Syrian lawyer went there to pray during her country’s first Ramadan after the end of the ...

Marook, a sweet bread eaten during Ramadan in Syria, used to be a simple loaf, but now the list of choices can be as long as ...

The routinely contested area is the furthest point from Damascus in Daraa Governorate. The new Syrian government has sought to extend its control to southern Syria and the border crossings with Jordan ...

In the 12th century, the Andalusian poet and traveler Ibn Jubayr described the agricultural lands around Damascus as “the ...

The White Helmets did not dare set foot near Damascus for years after dictator ... of some of the dramatic changes that have swept Syria since Assad was toppled by Islamist militant group Hayat ...