More than 7,000 people had taken shelter in the Rukban camp, near the border with Jordan, many of whom fled the regime and ...

While this means that Syria has an unprecedented opportunity to turn a new page and begin 2025 with a fresh start, not ...

it lies at the crossroads of the north-south highway that connects Aleppo and Damascus and the east-west highway that connects the desert and the Mediterranean Sea. Bassam Barabandi, a former ...

Timmerman gets out of a van ahead of his transfer to U.S. forces on the desert highway on Friday. Earlier in the day, NPR had ...

Rebel forces in Syria reached the suburbs of Damascus on Saturday, marking what the jihadist-backed groups called the “final phase” of their offensive against the government as protesters in ...

Bathed in the glow of the winter sun, the colonnades of ancient Palmyra are perhaps Syria’s most precious sight.

In the weeks since Bashar al-Assad was ousted as Syrian leader, Russia has launched multiple flights to an airbase in the ...

Damascus residents are celebrating a rebel victory that quickly swept through Syria, culminating with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's overthrow and departure to Moscow over the weekend, ending ...

Assad, who wielded fear and force over Syria for more than two decades, fled the country under the cover of night — and a ...

Damascus residents were seen celebrating in footage published on December 8 as rebels declared they had captured the city. “We declare the city of Damascus free from the tyrant Bashar al-Assad ...