European Union foreign ministers have agreed to begin lifting sanctions on Syria, but insist that the measures should be ...

Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus bookstores, no ...

New Middle East correspondent Henry Bodkin talks to Venetia Rainey about his recent trip to Syria where he went out on the ...

The summer home of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad was once off-limits to ordinary Syrians. Now people are lining up to visit ...

"Regarding Syria, we are going to decide today to lift, to suspend, certain sanctions that had applied to the energy and ...

Officers say the move aims to instil a sense of morality as they race to fill a security vacuum after dismantling ousted ...

Syria’s Turkmen community in the Latakia province is seeking the return of over 4,500 acres of land seized by force since ...

Economy has been battered by corruption and 13 years of civil war. Coupled with international sanctions and mismanagement, ...

But such research was conducted while Assad was still in power, and it has only been several weeks since Assad fell. As a ...

MOSCOW - A Russian delegation has arrived in Damascus for the first time since Moscow's ally President Bashar al-Assad was ...

Russia has sent a delegation to Damascus following the ousting of its ally, President Bashar al-Assad. The delegation, aimed ...

A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...