The system of detention, torture and death run by Syria’s former ruler, Bashar Assad, is starting to come out into the open.

The country’s new leaders are pushing to restore a sense of normalcy. But Syria remains under a host of international ...

Ad Policy Syrians celebrate the fall of Bashar al-Assad regime and the New Year’s Eve in the capital, Damascus, on December ...

The new authorities have promised justice for crimes under the Assads, but there are huge challenges involved.

“In battles yesterday and today near just one village, Makhnovka, the Russian army lost up to a battalion of North Korean infantry soldiers and Russian paratroops,” Mr Zelensky said in his nightly ...

Residents of Syria’s capital are picnicking on a once-forbidden mountaintop and trading openly in dollars and imported ...

Residents of Idlib in north-west Syria still talk of the time when Bashar Al Assad's father, Hafez, visited the city soon ...

“To sustain even the very slow advance in Ukraine, Russia has been forced to ignore the months-long occupation of part of its own territory by Ukrainian forces,” British security expert Ruth Deyermond ...

JOBAR, Syria In this Damascus suburb, the handful of remaining Jews in Syria can again make pilgrimages to one of the world's ...

According to Global Affairs Canada, more than 250,000 people have died in the Syrian conflict that began in 2011, and there are more than seven million internally displaced Syrians and six million ...

Damascus Library in Montgomery County closes for extensive renovations and upgrades, set to reopen in fall 2026.

Syria’s 13-year civil war left the synagogue partially destroyed. Walls and roofs have collapsed. Some artifacts are missing.