Jan 21 (Reuters) - Rifaat al-Assad, the brother of the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad known by critics as the "butcher ...

Deir al-Zour has been described as the most heavily damaged city in Syria by U.N.-Habitat. Traffic weaves past craters and ...

A fragile ceasefire between Syria's government and Kurdish-led forces has temporarily eased tensions in the country's ...

The rapid turn of events has brought almost all of Syria back under the authority of the central Damascus-based state ...

Known for his role in the 1982 Hama massacre, the late member of Syria’s former ruling family oversaw the killing of tens of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ONE YEAR after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Syria, under Ahmed al-Sharaa, is perhaps a nicer place to live, but the suspicion that ...

Government troops drew closer to Raqqa, the largest city overseen by the Kurds, raising U.S. concerns about the renewal of a ...

The Kurds are widely believed to be the largest stateless ethnic group in the world.

A fragile truce reached this week between the Syrian government and Kurdish-led fighters was seen as a blow by many Kurds in ...

In the autumn of 2014, the Kurdish-majority town of Kobani in northern Syria was on the brink of falling to Isis militants.

BEIRUT (AP) — Senior officials from the European Union visited Syria for the first time Friday and met with Syrian interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa in the latest sign of the country’s improving ...

The huge al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria for years has posed an intractable problem — a destitute and increasingly ...