Council officers said in their report: “Officers have worked to ensure that the development enhances the public realm with a ...

What began as protests against President Assad’s regime in 2011 quickly escalated into a full-scale war between the Syrian government—backed by Russia and Iran—and anti-government rebel ...

Explosions heard in Damascus as Israel carries out aerial bombardments ‘on strategic areas’ across Syria, including in and around Damascus. The streets of Syria’s cities and towns are ...

minimalist “Soviet bloc"-style architecture and innumerable Hafez al-Assad posters that reminded Syria’s citizens who was in charge. The class hierarchy and insularity that permeated Syrian ...

In the shadow of the Syrian civil war, the drug trade emerged as a grim cornerstone of Bashar al-Assad's regime. Known for its stimulant effects, Captagon became Syria's largest illicit export ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unannounced stop in Iraq on Friday on his latest visit to the Middle East aimed at stabilizing the situation in Syria to prevent further regional ...

The emerging transitional government in Syria faces a daunting road ahead as it looks to unite a vast coalition of rebel groups and appeal to Western nations concerned about whether the country ...

They were among thousands who spilled out of Syria's prison system on Sunday after a lightning rebel advance overthrew President Bashar al-Assad and ended five decades of his family's rule.

The rapid demise of the brutal Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria has taken every geopolitical analyst and self-proclaimed Middle East “expert” by storm. Following 53 years of brutal Assad family ...

Israel pounded Syria with hundreds of airstrikes Tuesday, eliminating most of the country’s strategic weapons stockpiles in a move officials say will prevent the dangerous weapons from falling ...

After Syrian opposition forces led an offensive that rapidly swept through Syria's major cities in a matter of weeks and ultimately led to the fall of Bashar al-Assad's government, US President ...

An offensive by armed opposition groups that began in northwest Syria on 27 November and quickly spread to other parts of the country, reached the capital, Damascus, early on Sunday morning. By the ...