In a Damascus suburb, the head of Syria's tiny Jewish community visits the newly accessible Joba synagogue for the first time ...

"We were at the suffocation point," Yehia told AFP. "Even if you worked all day you still couldn't make ends meet. "This is ...

In Syria, after 13 years of civil war, armed rebels took the capital Damascus, in a lightning advance, prompting President ...

The BBC's Barbara Plett-Usher says she has heard gunfire and explosions but it is "relatively calm" in Damascus, after rebels took control of the Syrian capital. President Assad is said to have ...

On International Human Solidarity Day, Hamas calls for intensified pressure on the Zionist entity to cease its aggression and ...

The Sudanese government has suspended its participation in the global hunger-monitoring system on the eve of a report that’s ...

Exclusive: While Damascus airport is currently closed, daily flights connect the UK with Beirut, which is only 60 miles from ...

"I can't believe I'm living this moment," Damascus resident Amer Batha told AFP. "We've been waiting a long time for this day. We are starting a new history for Syria." Biden addresses Austin Tice ...

Ayesha Rascoe talks to Mazen Gharibah of the London School of Economics about internal opposition to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, which started long before his ouster this month.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Friday that Koroglu and staff had left for Damascus and the embassy would be "operational" the following day. The Damascus embassy closed on March 26 ...

Damascus has fallen. Once again. One of the oldest cities in the world has fallen. To rise again from its rubble, heralding a new order. In its rise and fall, Damascus has lessons for all ...