Security sources have stated that Israeli forces in Syria have reached the southern city of Qatana, around 16 miles from ...

The Golan Heights is a rocky plateau about 60km (40 miles) south-west of Damascus. Israel seized the territory from Syria in the closing stages of the 1967 Six-Day War and unilaterally annexed it ...

The Middle Eastern country had been ruled by outside powers and dictators for centuries before its revolution was realized.

Syria's civil war left one of the world's oldest synagogues partially destroyed. Now Syria's handful of remaining Jews are ...

Rebels have launched a major offensive against the government in Syria, seizing cities in a lightning ... road that links Aleppo and Damascus. Its capture will hamper any swift attempt by Assad ...

A coalition of Syrian rebels say they have toppled the government of President Bashar al-Assad and captured the Syrian ...

A rebel force has deployed to a village in southeastern Damascus to stop looters who swarmed a residential complex in the ...

A visual guide to the latest developments after Syrian rebels toppled President Bashar al-Assad 13 years after the start of the country's civil war.