Svenja Schulze was in Damascus to discuss a new program that would see German doctors train Syrian colleagues. Many Syrian hospitals were destroyed during the 14-year-long civil war.

Geopolitics abhors a power vacuum. One country’s loss is another’s gain, and the space left by Iran is being occupied, for ...

A colossal statue of Hafez al-Assad was once a powerful symbol of Syria’s ruling regime, looming over the Damascus-Aleppo ...

In a Damascus courtyard, Syrian activists brainstormed strategies to ensure their country does not return to authoritarianism ...

Highway 224 is closed in both directions near Damascus due to a crash, causing traffic delays, according to ODOT.

Highway 224 is closed in both directions near Damascus due to a crash, causing traffic delays, according to ODOT.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has visited the notorious Sednaya prison outside Damascus.

Israeli airstrikes on homes in the Gaza Strip killed at least 17 Palestinians, health officials said Tuesday. Earlier strikes ...

Assad’s regime on December 8 has put Syria in the spotlight once again. Following over a decade of conflict, the killing of ...

"We want to be useful in efforts to normalize the situation," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov pointed out ...

While the fall of the Assad dynasty represents an epochal turning point for Syrians, the future remains in all senses ...

If Brussels’ expectations about respecting human rights and minorities "are not met," the EU will reinstitute the sanctions, the paper signed by the six European nations said.