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 ...

A police officer from Idlib shows a room of a damaged police station in the Bab Touma neighborhood of the Old City of Damascus, Syria (Leo Correa/AP) As Maj Al-Ahmed tried to reassure them ...

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

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei on Wednesday addressed a crowd in Tehran and discussed the collapse of the Assad ...

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 have hit suspected chemical and long-range weapons sites in Syria and the foreign minister says the aim is to ...

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 ...