The overnight clash in Damascus appeared to have been contained, but it has heightened concerns that the violence sweeping ...

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

The conflict poses a challenge for the new interim president as he tries to unify Syria and extend his authority over the ...

Israel’s defense ministry says the military has been instructed to prepare to defend a Druze settlement in the suburbs of ...

The reported fighting in the capital, Damascus, and the second city of Aleppo were the first such clashes there since the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime.

An NPR investigation finds that more than 350 Syrian children were secretly placed in orphanages across the capital, Damascus, when the Assad regime was in power. Now, some of them cannot be found.

Fierce clashes over the past two days between security forces under Syria’s new Islamist government and gunmen belonging to ...

Security forces deployed in the Syrian capital Damascus and other major cities on Thursday night after gunmen ambushed a ...

During a visit to the Syrian capital, Damascus, in January, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock offered Syria support if the government met certain conditions, including ensuring the ...

said Hamra, whose family has settled in New York. His family fled the Syrian capital to escape the repressive government of Hafez Assad. With the toppling of his son, Bashar Assad, in December and ...

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