Syria's de facto leader has said it could take up to four years to hold elections in Syria, and that he plans on dissolving ...

Syria was once home to one of the world's largest Jewish communities. Those numbers have shrunk dramatically, especially ...

Last week, Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Esmail Baghaei told reporters that claims that Syria owes Iran $50bn are “exaggerated”, but added that any existing debts will be transferred to ...

What returning to Syria in the midst of the euphoria and horror of uncovering the al-Assads’ mass graves felt like.

Assad’s departure could help Turkey become a key point of transit for natural gas. But renewable energy may offer the more ...

Airport staff work on the maintenance of an aircraft at the Damascus international airport (Ghaith Alsayed/AP) Syria is taking its first steps in the post-Assad era as its people come to terms ...

An American found in Damascus this week was handed over to ... People celebrating the collapse of a long authoritarian dynasty waved revolutionary flags and posed for photographs with friends ...

Syria's Baath party under the Assad dynasty was a feared instrument of ... superiors had not been seen since Sunday when the capital Damascus fell to the rebels. "They all suddenly disappeared ...

The city was the seat of the Turkish Wali. Damascus, curiously, wasn't ruled by a local dynasty ever since the overthrow of the Aram-Damascus kingdom in the eighth century BC. This feature makes ...

Syrians lived in terror for decades of what went on behind the concrete walls of Damascus's security compound. Now the Assad dynasty has been toppled, its dungeons ...

and allies ended over half a century of unchecked rule by the Assad dynasty. Ostaz said she left her house for the first time since the offensive began to go shopping in central Damascus on Tuesday.