The White Helmets did not dare set foot near Damascus for years after dictator Bashar al-Assad branded the famed civic ...

This Ramadan, Syrians marked the 14th anniversary of the start of their country’s civil war. The conflict began as one of ...

Three months after the overthrow of President Bashar Assad, Syria is at a crossroads, the top U.N. envoy for the country says ...

In the 12th century, the Andalusian poet and traveler Ibn Jubayr described the agricultural lands around Damascus as “the ...

The ousted Assad dictatorship kept lists of millions of wanted people. Now, Syrians are openly asking whether they “have a ...

Shara, guarantees individual freedoms but gives Mr. al-Shara abundant power and keeps Islamic law as its legal foundation.

DAMASCUS, Syria — In the fall of 2018, Syrian security forces dragged a mother and her 2-year-old daughter, Hiba, from their ...

Whether Syria’s new leadership is truly seeking reconciliation — or consolidating power under a new flag — will determine ...