I took part in my first protest—a student demonstration in Beirut. At the time, Lebanon was controlled by the late Syrian ...

Damascus International Airport resumed international operations on Tuesday, with respective flights to the United Arab ...

The boulder-ringed Trégastel retreat has a neo-Gothic castle dubbed Château de Costaérès perched atop its highest point. Both cruise lines have added a number of items to their banned list, while ...

The top diplomats from Germany and France are in Syria to send what the German minister called a clear signal that a ...

Palestinian and hospital officials say Israeli airstrikes killed at least 50 people across the Gaza Strip, including several ...

Mahmoud Hassino, an award winning journalist and LGBTQ+ rights activist, is no stranger to turmoil. He was the force behind ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — The newly appointed governor of Damascus has called on the United States to use its influence to push for cordial relations with Israel. In a wide-ranging interview with NPR ...

"Our problem is not with Israel," Governor of Damascus Maher Marwan, appointed by the new administration in Syria, tells NPR. "We don't want to meddle in anything that will threaten Israel's ...

Newly appointed interim Governor of Damascus Maher Marwan. (Illustrative) (photo credit: SCREENSHOT/X/VIA SECTION 27A OF THE COPYRIGHT ACT) "Our problem is not with Israel," Maher Marwan ...

Israel has also seized more territory beyond the already occupied Golan Heights area on the Syrian border with impunity and struck Syrian military targets in Damascus. Assad may be gone ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A Syrian family that survived a 2013 chemical weapons attack on a suburb in Damascus recounted how they ...

Hundreds of demonstrators have taken to the streets in Christian neighborhoods of Damascus after a Christmas tree burning heightened fears that the overthrow of former President Bashar al-Assad ...