The streets were buzzing with excitement in Damascus as Syrians welcomed in a new year that seemed to many to bring a promise ...

This is where the road to Syria's Sednaya prison begins — another of humanity's grim discoveries in the realm of torture and ...

Assad, Afaf Mohammed did what she could not for more than a decade: she climbed Mount Qasyun to admire a sleeping Damascus ...

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

The BBC's Barbara Plett-Usher says she has heard gunfire and explosions but it is "relatively calm" in Damascus, after rebels took control of the Syrian capital. President Assad is said to have ...

On International Human Solidarity Day, Hamas calls for intensified pressure on the Zionist entity to cease its aggression and ...

The Sudanese government has suspended its participation in the global hunger-monitoring system on the eve of a report that’s ...

Exclusive: While Damascus airport is currently closed, daily flights connect the UK with Beirut, which is only 60 miles from ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Students and government ... “Thousands have sacrificed their lives so that we can see this day,” Nessrin al-Zuaby, a female university student, said as she held a Syrian ...

Damascus has fallen. Once again. One of the oldest cities in the world has fallen. To rise again from its rubble, heralding a new order. In its rise and fall, Damascus has lessons for all ...