Last week his officials announced a seven-person “preparatory” committee, charged with planning a national conference where a new constitution will be discussed. Critics say it is dominated by ...

If Syria is to rise from the Assad regime's ashes, its people must resurrect the spirit of the 2011 uprising in the ...

Once-thriving landmarks like the ancient city of Palmyra and the medieval Crusader castle of Crac des Chevaliers remain ...

Experts are returning to Syria’s war-ravaged heritage sites, hoping to lay the groundwork for restoring them and reviving ...

With 150,000 people listed as missing from Syria’s brutal civil conflict, the new authorities are looking to learn from the ...

The long anticipated return home for residents of the Syrian town of Tel Rifaat, displaced since 2014, has collided with a ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria is open to letting Russia keep its air and naval bases along the Mediterranean coast as long as any agreement with the Kremlin serves the country’s interests ...

Israel is building military bases in Syria, a local leader told the Washington Post. Mohammed Muraiwid, the mayor of Jubata al-Khassab, told the Post that Israeli bulldozers tore down fruit trees ...

DAMASCUS, Syria—The Syrian factions that toppled President Bashar Assad last month named an Islamist former rebel leader as the country’s interim president on Wednesday in a push to project a ...

BAGHDAD — The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions in neighboring Iraq to reconsider their push for U.S. forces to exit the country, multiple Iraqi and American officials ...

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Syria's new Islamist leaders are undertaking a radical overhaul of the country's broken economy, including plans to fire a third of all public sector workers and privatising ...