Roaming the opulent Damascus home of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, Abu Omar felt a sense of giddy defiance being ...

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A team led by Kathleen Martinez, who has worked for two decades in hopes of finding Cleopatra’s tomb, has unearthed new ...

For more than a decade, the United States has sought to keep out of Syria's political debacle, seeing no viable partner.

As soon as rebel forces seized Damascus, Syrians swarmed the notorious Saydnaya prison, desperate for news of loved ones who ...

The hulks of half-submerged Syrian missile ships smouldered in Latakia harbour on Tuesday, hours after Israel hammered its ...

Assad, Iran has started to distance itself from their longtime alliance, instead stressing the history of friendship between ...

Israel's bombing of Syrian military assets and its entry into the UN-patrolled buffer zone on the Golan Heights show it fears ...

Turkey has expanded its border crossing capacities to accommodate the surge in Syrian refugees seeking to return home ...

In Damascus, life is cautiously returning to normal as residents step out of their homes into a Syria transformed by the ...

Syrians lived in terror for decades of what went on behind the concrete walls of Damascus's security compound. Now the Assad ...

Once celebrated as an advocate of women's rights in the Middle East, Syria's British-born former first lady Asma al-Assad has ...