A senior official of the ruling Kurdish party in northeast Syria (Rojava) on Sunday strongly criticized a proposal by the ...

Shiite rituals for Ashoura in Damascus have drastically changed after the fall of Syria's former President Bashar Assad.

Assad’s most-notorious death factory, the hangings had become routine. Once a month, around midnight, the guards at Sednaya ...

Assad's 24-year rule ended abruptly as a coalition of rebel forces, led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), launched a rapid ...

The United States government has revoked its designation of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham as a foreign terrorist organization, seven ...

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Giant billboards of Donald Trump and Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa have appeared in Damascus, thanking Trump for lifting U ...

The meeting marked a major step for the two countries which have been foes for decades, and comes after Israel initially cold-shouldered Sharaa's administration as jihadist because of his past links t ...

It has been seven months since Bashar al-Assad was ousted from power in Syria, thrusting the country into a new era after 54 ...

UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy traveled to Damascus to renew diplomatic relations with Syria on Saturday, eight months ...

It has been seven months since Bashar al-Assad was ousted from power in Syria, thrusting the country into a new era after 54 ...

This year, after Assad’s ouster in a lightning rebel offensive led by Sunni Islamist insurgents, the Shiite neighborhoods of Damascus were subdued.