Sahar Diab had visited Damascus’ famed Umayyad Mosque previously. But as the Syrian lawyer went there to pray during her ...

Syria faced severe violence, with security forces accused of mass killings in Alawite-majority areas. Over 1,000 civilians ...

At the start of the new year, 115,000 Syrians had already returned home from Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. In December, the ...

In the 12th century, the Andalusian poet and traveler Ibn Jubayr described the agricultural lands around Damascus as “the ...

The one thing holding Syria together now is Ahmed al-Sharaa, who has taken on the near-impossible job of teaching his people ...

The recent surge of violence in Syria lays bare the challenges interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa faces in delivering on his promise to lead a more unified country.

Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.

Abdulwahab Omira escaped Syria's war with his family as a teenager. He recently returned as a Stanford graduate student and a budding... He fled Syria's war as a teenager. He went back to help ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Abdulwahab Omira escaped Syria's civil war with his family as a teenager ... at the presidential palace in 2012. But before that took place, Omira was stopped on the street ...

In scenes that resembled the worst moments of Syria’s civil war, hundreds of civilians were killed. A rally to defend a free Syria had descended into calls for vengeance and ended in a shocking ...

Syria's 14-year civil war has undergone yet another rapid series of shifts, with violence sweeping the west coast homeland of deposed President Bashar al-Assad's minority Alawite Muslim sect and ...

Hundreds of thousands of Kurds, who were displaced during Syria's nearly 14-year civil war, will return to their ... and you will find before you men who do not know how to retreat and who will ...