DAMASCUS, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Syria will issue new banknotes, removing two zeros from its currency in an attempt to restore ...

Syria's upcoming parliamentary elections, the country's first since the ouster of long-time ruler Bashar al-Assad more than ...

Officials said the selection, set for Sept 15–20, will be delayed in Sweida, Raqa and Hasakeh for safety reasons.

In areas home to religious and ethnic minorities, Syria’s Sunni Islamist-led government is increasingly seen as a threat.

The top U.N. envoy for Syria is warning that its transition remains “on a knife-edge” and violence could resume at any moment ...

New Islamist rulers are trying to destroy the drug empire that financed the former regime in Damascus. Can they succeed?

The Pentagon provided few details about the operation. But counterterrorism raids — as opposed to airstrikes — typically ...

U.S. forces on Tuesday killed a senior ISIS official in Syria, U.S. Central Command (Centcom) announced in a statement ...

It's been a decade since tens of thousands of refugees crossed into Germany in the late summer of 2015 after then Chancellor ...

Relations between Beirut and Damascus remain tense — as they have been for decades past, a time during which Syria failed to ...

Syria Civil War Chemical Weapon Use Feared By President Assad After Syrian Military Moves U.S. official confirms that the Syrian military loaded elements of deadly nerve gas into bombs.

Upon his father's death in 2000, Assad -- who had risen to the rank of colonel in the Syrian army -- had already consolidated support in the military and the Baath political party, according to a ...