The 'Greater Israel' map includes significant portions of modern-day Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, sparking widespread ...

Damascus residents on Tuesday (December 31) were preparing to welcome the New Year for the first time since the ousting of ...

Others have brought a sense of relief and joy. That was evident at the Al-Hamidiyah market in the heart of the old city of Damascus. It was once inaccessible to many Syrians. NPR's Hadeel Al ...

Damascus (AFP) – A silent crowd gathered in the Syrian capital Damascus on Friday to press the new authorities about the fate of relatives who went missing under Bashar al-Assad and to demand ...

Hundreds of members of the main Syrian insurgent group that overthrew former President Bashar Assad from power marched through the streets of the capital in a show of force. (AP video shot by Leo ...

(Salwan Georges/The Washington Post) DAMASCUS -- This Christmas morning in Syria's capital, Christians dressed in their finest clothes, attended church and participated in the annual parade through ...

DAMASCUS - This Christmas morning in Syria’s capital, Christians dressed in their finest clothes, attended church and participated in the annual parade through the ancient part of the city.

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

Syrians who remained loyal to him through years of civil war fume that he left without a word. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Damascus meeting comes as Western governments including Britain, France, Germany and Switzerland gradually establish channels with the new Syrian authorities under caretaker Prime Minister ...

Damascus — In a remote corner outside Damascus, Syria, a now abandoned potato chip factory reveals one of the many dark but open secrets of the ousted regime of Bashar al-Assad. A CBS News team ...