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

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

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

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

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

Syria’s Kurdish administration has condemned the forthcoming selection of a transitional parliament as undemocratic, after ...

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

Soldiers seized RPG missiles, IEDs, Kalashnikov-type rifles, and a large amount of ammunition, with all weapons confiscated by soldiers.

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

The fragile peace is already being tested as Syrian President Ahmad Al Sharaa’s new provisional government prepares to hold ...

As tensions mount between the Druze community and the Sharaa government, a fierce power struggle threatens to tear the ...

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 ...