An American who turned up in Syria says he was detained after crossing into the country on foot seven months ago on a ...

Syrian government falls in a stunning end to the 50-year rule of the Assad family. Notre Dame Cathedral hosts first Mass ...

As rebels swept into Damascus last week, toppling former President Bashar al-Assad, his army simply collapsed, abruptly ...

Since the shock collapse of Assad's government over the weekend, Israel has moved troops into the buffer zone on the Syrian ...

Samir Ousman Alsheikh, 72, allegedly ran Damascus Central Prison from 2005 to 2008, where detained opponents of Assad were ...

Bombardment, looting and disuse have wreaked an uncertain toll on the country's former synagogues and Jewish sites.

A missing US man has been found in Syria, where he says he was kept in prison for months after entering the country as a ...

An American man identifying himself as Travis Timmerman has been found near the Syrian capital Damascus after being freed ...

Samir Ousman al-Sheikh, who oversaw Syria’s infamous Adra Prison from 2005 to 2008 under recently ousted President Bashar ...

The indictment was the second time in a week that the Justice Department announced that it had charged top Syrian officials ...

After Bashar Assad's ouster, residents hope the site in Damascus' Tadamon district can be cordoned off for those responsible ...