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Assad, Afaf Mohammed did what she could not for more than a decade: she climbed Mount Qasyun to admire a sleeping Damascus ...

The collapse of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria following a lightning rebel offensive in November has shaken Assad-ally ...

"Our problem is not with Israel. We don't want to meddle in anything that will threaten Israel's security," Damascus Governor ...

Gaza's Health Ministry says Israeli soldiers stormed and burned a hospital after forcibly removing staff and patients.

A key Syrian rescue group and an activist told AFP on Wednesday a burial site outside Damascus was likely a mass grave for ..

Demonstrators took to the streets in Damascus and locations in Syria after armed men burnt a Christmas tree in the city of al ...

The BBC's Barbara Plett-Usher says she has heard gunfire and explosions but it is "relatively calm" in Damascus ... to have left by plane to an unknown location, and "everyone is waiting to ...

An Israeli airstrike on a residential building in central Gaza killed at least seven Palestinians, including four children, ...

Israel’s military has seized a strategic mountain top in its contested border area with Syria and advanced on positions ...

U.S. officials are in Syria with goals to advance Aqaba principles and seek information on American citizens who disappeared under the Assad regime.

A Palestinian Health Ministry official says Israeli airstrikes slammed into two schools sheltering displaced people in Gaza ...