The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national ...

Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.

The American mainstream media may have some ability to get away from government policy talking points when covering domestic ...

The Road to Damascus concept is overwhelmingly too dramatic: My lives as a photographer are quiet and simple: The zen wars ...

Kyle Orton reflects on his recent visit to a Syria still adjusting to life after the fall of Assad. There was something ...

As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...

In an abandoned complex in the Syrian desert city of Palmyra, a piece of paper bearing a motivational slogan in Farsi is pinned to a rough wall. “No beginning is more beautiful than hello, and no wish ...

A committee formed by Syria's new authorities to investigate a wave of deadly violence said on Tuesday the country was determined to "prevent unlawful revenge".

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

Israeli fire has killed eight Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and three more in the occupied West Bank over the past 24 hours, ...

The scenes of elation following Monday night's declaration came in sharp contrast to the grim scenes in coastal communities ...