The people of Syria said good riddance in the past month to the dictatorship that ruled for half a century. They have no idea ...

Umayyad Square in Damascus hummed to the throngs of people brandishing "revolution" flags as Syria saw in the new year with ...

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

Syrian producer Mohammad al-Shebli was helping to translate the anguished messages scrawled on cell walls by prisoners of the brutal Assad regime made a heart-wrenching discovery.

The Assad regime cultivated ethnic and religious divides that threaten Syria's future even after the dynasty's fall.

Hama, Homs, Damascus – all again in the headlines overnight because of the regime’s swift fall, yet too home to the most heinous parts of its history – respectively the 1982 massacre of ...

The Assad Regime has ended in Syria with rebels taking Damascus. NBC News' Richard Engel is on the ground in Damascus and NBC News' Kelly O'Donnell is at the White House with our reporting.

For decades, any Syrian daring to broach political topics got used to speaking in hushed tones and with a watchful eye ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — The newly appointed governor of Damascus has called on the United States to use its influence to push for cordial relations with Israel. In a wide-ranging interview with NPR ...

With the stunning change of leadership in Syria and the end of a 50-year reign of the Assad regime, the significance of religious history in Syria shouldn't be overlooked. Most Syrians are now Muslim, ...