After violence broke out between the current and past regimes in Syria, fearful residents have waded across a river to take ...

Israel’s military has carried out an airstrike on a residential building on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus that it said was a command center of the militant group Palestinian Islamic ...

Syria’s interim president has signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule for five years during a transitional phase.

Abdulwahab Omira escaped Syria's war with his family as a teenager. He recently returned as a Stanford graduate student and a ...

Children's school uniforms hung on the door. Their academic workbooks lay on their desks. Toys covered in dust were still ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — American Jews who fled their Syrian homeland decades ago went to the White House this week to appeal to the ...

His best friend is from Ecuador, and Riad plans to study Spanish in middle school. He’s joined a local basketball team, and ...

Democracy and peace are not guaranteed when a dictator falls — sometimes, a country’s fate turns uglier and messier.

Syria’s interim government has announced the end of a days-long military operation against insurgents loyal to ousted ...

Hundreds of people have been killed amid armed clashes in Syria, with many of those deaths filmed and published on the ...

Under Mr Assad Syria sank from middle-income status to abject poverty. Women saw branches off trees for heating. Children ...

Harsh statement comes as rights group says government-affiliated forces executed at least 90 Alawites as they move to crush a ...