As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...

The overnight clash in Damascus appeared to have been contained, but it has heightened concerns that the violence sweeping ...

Members of the small religious sect find themselves caught between two forces that many of them distrust: the new, ...

Over 1,300 people have been killed in fierce clashes between government forces and gunmen loyal to the Assad regime, ...

"It's a great feeling," he said as he passed through the Damascus Gate, one of the main entrances to the Old City. In recent years, Israeli authorities have regularly restricted access to the mosque ...

The work of the Syria Strategy Project and the considerable policy recommendations found in this report present a realistic ...

The reported fighting in the capital, Damascus, and the second city of Aleppo were the first such clashes there since the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime.

Night - Clear. Winds variable at 7 mph (11.3 kph). The overnight low will be 50 °F (10 °C). Sunny with a high of 71 °F (21.7 °C). Winds variable at 4 to 7 mph (6.4 to 11.3 kph). Sunny today ...

For Henry Hamra, who fled Damascus as a teenager with his family in the 1990s, the 30 years since have been shadowed by worry for what they left behind. “I was just on the lookout the whole time.

The Trump administration moved its fast-paced dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development toward what ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Some 90,000 Palestinians prayed at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City under tight security by Israeli forces in the first Friday prayers of the Muslim holy ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — In the first Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, about 90,000 Palestinians prayed at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City under tight security ...