Syria's new authorities have detained an Egyptian Islamist militant who fought against Bashar al-Assad's rule over threats he ...

The United Nations human rights chief has called for the lifting of Western sanctions imposed on Syria over its yearslong ...

The president-elect may want to withdraw U.S. troops from the area, but if he does, he’d put a victory he’s proud of at risk.

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said the extent of atrocities committed in Syria is hard to believe and ...

But as a new government takes shape in Damascus, Syrians and foreign observers alike worry about how inclusive, ...

US Central Command (CENTCOM) commander General Michael “Erik” Kurilla visited Iraq and the Kurdistan Region on Wednesday and ...

Turkish Airlines will resume its flights to Damascus, Syria, next week after a halt of more than a decade, officials said Wednesday following a visit by a delegation of Syria’s new, Turkey-backed ...

As Syria’s new Islamist rulers reshape the way schools teach the nation’s history, students struggle to navigate the traumas ...

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - The head of an American organisation focused on hostage releases said on Monday he believes U.S.

The rebel alliance that took power has vowed to prosecute senior figures from the ousted government, but accountability will ...

Germany’s foreign minister says sanctions against Syrian officials responsible for war crimes must remain in place but called ...