Among the sacred places mentioned in Islamic sources are Mecca, Sinai, and Jerusalem, but also Syria (the Shām) and ...

After fifty-four years of Assad family dictatorship collapsed in a few days, a new Syria is going to be born. Every decent ...

On Tuesday, al-Shaara’s fledgling government announced a landmark agreement: anti-Assad rebel forces will disband, their ...

Families of detainees and missing Syrians protest outside the Hijaz train station in Damascus, demanding accountability for perpetrators of crimes under Assad's now-deposed government. "These people ...

While the country’s conflict lines have been largely stalemated since 2020, Syria’s economic woes have only multiplied in the ...

In Syria, after 13 years of civil war, armed rebels took the capital Damascus, in a lightning advance, prompting President ...

With Damascus falling to a broad coalition of rebels ... he “is the most recognisable of Syria’s triumphant insurgents”. However, his history as a jihadist is a cause for concern, as ...

The wealthy Arab states were anxious before the first election of Donald Trump in the year 2017 about the reduced US role in ...

For years, Syria was a fabled destination for cultural holidays. Now operators believe Britons could return as soon as next ...

It was Day Two since Damascus was “liberated ... We can only document history and hope the victims and their families will one day find peace, justice and accountability.

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... killed hundreds of people near the country’s capital, Damascus, says the ordeal they experienced haunts them to ...