Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa spoke for the first time on Wednesday. The ...

Syria’s status as a classic Middle East tourist definition was shredded by civil war. Visitors are now beginning to return, ...

In July last year, two years after Jamila’s son Mohammed was killed, gunmen came for Tariq, another of her four sons, and her ...

It was heartbreaking and grotesque. Other hostages are reported by The Times to have spent their captivity bound, tortured, ...

Stalling the next release of hostages from the Gaza Strip, scheduled for the coming weekend, raises new challenges for the ...

The former rebel stronghold of Jobar points to the challenges facing the new government as it embarks on rebuilding a broken country.