Assad’s regime was toppled, Charlie Smart, a reporter at The New York Times, traveled to a mass burial site in Syria to ...

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The longtime enemies have opened contacts, reflecting a power shift across a Middle East in which they have newfound common ...

The country is experiencing its worst drought in decades, which has set the conditions for the blazes to scorch an area the ...

Thousands of Syrian refugees are set to return from Lebanon this week under the first, U.N.-backed plan providing financial ...

Under the Assad regime, Saydnaya prison became a mass-killing machine; ‘a symbol of shame for the whole world.’ ...

Thousands of Syria’s Jews left in recent decades. But after Assad’s ouster and easing of sanctions, they can now reconnect ...

Last month's deadly church bombing outside Syria's capital is raising fears among the country's minority Christians.

A cemetery near Damascus was transformed into an industrial-scale mass grave for Syrians who opposed President Bashar ...

Shiite rituals for Ashoura in Damascus have drastically changed after the fall of Syria’s former President Bashar Assad ...

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham will no longer be designated as a terrorist group, months after the group swept to power in Syria.

Allies of the new Syrian government and other non-state actors have continued violence and discrimination against Christians ...