The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for two attacks in southern Syria. One of them was an attack on government ...

Turkey and Saudi Arabia are two Sunni powerhouses that have had a complicated and often contentious relationship over the ...

Alaa Hassan was 25 years old when the uprisings against Bashar al-Assad began in Syria. He was part of the movement that grew ...

For weeks, Ziad Abu al-Dahab has been training for gold at an equestrian tournament near Damascus -- in a sport once dominated by Syria's Assad family and their inner circle. "Results used to be ...

DAMASCUS, May 18 (Reuters) - Syria will set up commissions for justice and missing persons tasked with probing crimes committed during the rule of the Assad family, compensating victims and ...

(DAMASCUS, SYRIA) -- He's a former al-Qaeda insurgent who fought against U.S. forces in Iraq and served time in the infamous Abu Ghraib prison. Still, on Wednesday, new Syrian President Ahmad al ...

Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad late last year, the new Syrian leadership has moved swiftly to distance itself from Iran, seeking new alliances with Arab neighbors and warming up to the West in ...

Baghdad last hosted an Arab League summit in 2012, during the early stages of the civil war in neighbouring Syria, which in December entered a new chapter with the overthrow of longtime ruler Bashar ...

Ahmed al-Sharaa, better known in the past as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, was once one of America’s most wanted men. A decade ago, he led Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, orchestrating ...