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

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

A Syrian security source and Syria's state-owned Al-Ikhbariya said the target was killed as he tried to escape, as US ...

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?

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

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

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

A group of bipartisan lawmakers met with Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus, part of a growing group in Congress ...

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

A lot has happened in just a year on both sides of the Lebanon-Syria border. A lightning offensive by Islamist insurgents in ...

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 ...