Syria's new authorities are using Islamic teachings to train a fledgling police force, a move officers say aims to instil a ...

By bnm Gulf bureau The first Turkish Airlines flight in 13 years landed in Damascus on January 23, carrying 345 passengers ...

For over a decade, the former Syrian regime’s brutality turned people into numbers and buried them in mass graves. Now, ...

The end of a half-century of Assad family rule in Syria marked a turning point in the countrys deadly 13-year civil war after ...

With its chic galleries, dimly lit bars and smoky cafés, Damascus’ vibrant cultural scene is flourishing again. But will this ...

Syrian phone shop owner Abdel Razzaq Hamra was thrilled to finally be working in peace after years of being harassed and ...

The first international commercial flight since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad has landed at the Damascus airport arriving from Qatar.

Turkey has emerged as one of the most influential power brokers in Syria after rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad last month, ...

Residents of Syria’s capital are picnicking on a once-forbidden mountaintop and trading openly in dollars and imported Nescafe. They say the city seems theirs again. Mount Qasioun, which ...

(AP video shot by Ghaith Alsayed) FILE.- Syrians sing and wave post-Assad flags during a concert by the recently returned ...

An advocacy group said more than 4,000 people were freed from the detention facility when rebel forces took Damascus on December 8. Countless other inmates — both criminals and Assad opponents ...

Syrians begin to learn to live without Assad. Damascus and Sednaya, Syria—On New Year’s Day, Diyya ad-Din Dereh took his family on an outing. He, his wife, and their four young girls squeezed ...