In central Damascus, you could be forgiven for doubting that a war had ever occurred. The ancient old city in the Syrian ...

As Rabbi Yusuf Hamra and his son Henry were visiting Damascus this week for the first time since emigrating from Syria to the ...

DAMASCUS: Syria’s tiny Jewish community said they held their first group prayer in decades Wednesday, in a synagogue in ...

A delegation from the global chemical weapons watchdog has arrived in Damascus to meet with Syria’s new leaders for the first time since the fall of former President Bashar Assad ...

The head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), a global non-proliferation agency, will meet ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

It said Damascus had asked Russia to rebuild trust ... after the International Criminal Court at The Hague in May brought charges against Israeli leaders — along with Hamas militant leaders ...

DAMASCUS — Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus bookstores, no longer traded in secret after iron-fisted ruler Bashar al ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Syrian civil defense workers, known as the White Helmets, collect human remains found in two separate ...

DAMASCUS — Vice President JD Vance pledged the federal government will do more to assist residents of this small community rebuild in the wake of disastrous flooding in September caused by ...

Since 2011, thousands of detainees died due to incarceration conditions or were tortured or executed in nightly mass hangings. Built on a hill 30 kilometers from Damascus, the Saidnaya prison has ...

“They wore masks. They kept shooting...until they ran out of bullets,” Mumina says, recounting a night near Damascus when Islamist rebels fighting the regime of Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian ...