Poor Syria! That's an inauspicious but honest start, as Syria faces myriad problems, internal and external, without easy resolutions.Syria has long been a victim of others' machinations - from Ottoman ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 3,500-year-old military fortress with a zigzag-style wall in the north Sinai Desert of Egypt ...

Deputy High Commissioner of UNHCR Kelly T. Clements told The Associated Press in Damascus that about 1.7 million people who ...

On one of the many occasions human rights lawyer Radeef Mustafa was detained by Syria's former regime, security agents in Damascus shoved him into the boot of a Peugeot car. “They squeezed me on top ...

For two years, Syria’s Assad government secretly trucked thousands of bodies from an exposed mass grave to the desert, trying ...

As Syria’s regime collapsed, the world’s eyes were on Bashar al-Assad’s getaway flight. Behind him, officials key to his ...

A bomb has exploded on a Syrian Defense Ministry bus in the country's east, killing four soldiers and wounding others. The attack happened Thursday on the road between Deir el-Zour and Mayadeen.

Syria’s interim leader, who led a swift rebel offensive last year that ousted former Syrian President Bashar Assad despite ...

Welcoming interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa at the Kremlin, Russian President Vladimir Putin praised the historic links between Moscow and Damascus and voiced hope for their expansion. The meeting ...