First statements by the new Belgian  Foreign Minister appear to be at odds with the general feeling that the new government ...

Syria’s status as a classic Middle East tourist definition was shredded by civil war. Visitors are now beginning to return, ...

Laughter fills the Zawaya Art Gallery in downtown Damascus. A packed crowd is chuckling uproariously at Syria’s first ...

RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Palestinian Authority’s commission of prisoners’ affairs published Friday the names of 183 ...

Salim Karim Iskef managed to video-call his fiancée to tell her he loved her one last time. He later died from gunshot wounds ...

A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 uprising has been detained inside Syria, according to state news agency SANA.

Syria’s interim government is undertaking a sweeping reform of the country’s shattered economy, including plans to lay off a third of public sector workers and privatize state-run enterprises that ...

BAGHDAD — The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions in neighboring Iraq to reconsider their push for U.S. forces to exit the country, multiple Iraqi and American officials ...

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Syria's new Islamist leaders are undertaking a radical overhaul of the country's broken economy, including plans to fire a third of all public sector workers and privatising ...

One day after the announcement of Syria's new interim president, the former leader of the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham militia, Ahmad al-Sharaa, held his first presidential address to the nation. ...