Culture / As the collections of Sir Moses Montefiore and David Solomon Sassoon go under the hammer today, what’s the future ...

Exclusive: While Damascus airport is currently closed, daily flights connect the UK with Beirut, which is only 60 miles from ...

Hope and uncertainty fill the streets of Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. The challenges of rebuilding are enormous ...

Syrians seeking to chart their own political course, free from outside interference, following the ouster of President Bashar ...

Bashir, who previously governed a small pocket of rebel-held territory, will be interim prime minister until March.

When I arrived in Damascus 35 years ago, on my first visit as a foreign correspondent, I was expecting a grey swamp of dictatorial repression.

Before the advent of Islam, the site hosted several religious structures. During the Iron Age, it was a place of worship for ...

Israeli strikes killed at least six people in the central Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical officials said Monday, while also ...

The Assad family’s decades-long reign in Syria came to an abrupt end this weekend when rebel forces led by the militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), captured Damascus after a stunning ...

Syrians flocked to the main square of the capital Damascus on Monday, AFP journalists saw, to mark what many regard as a long ...

Russia was a key ally of Assad's regime - the former president and his family will now reportedly get asylum there.