For Syrians observing Ramadan, this Muslim holy month is their first in their homeland since the end of the Assad family's ...

Before Germany, Italy reopened its embassy last year before the fall of Assad, and Spain reopened its embassy after his ...

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DAMASCUS, Syria — Germany’s foreign minister reopened its embassy in Damascus on Thursday, 13 years after it was shut in the ...

Across Syria, as the interim government struggles to provide both security and services, local civil society groups are helping to fill the voids. But is there a part for them to play in politics, and ...

The Syrian civil war has internally displaced 7.2 million people since 2011 ... Alobeid said his family found asylum in the country of Jordan, where they stayed for three and a half years before ...

In the 12th century, the Andalusian poet and traveler Ibn Jubayr described the agricultural lands around Damascus as “the ...

Canadians with ties to Syria say it's time for Ottawa to drop sanctions on the country and help nudge its new leaders towards democracy.

The killings in late January came weeks before the recent eruption of violence ... accused of one of the darkest chapter of Syria’s civil war: the massacre of Sunnis in the nearby region of ...

Ismail had left his home in rural western Aleppo in 2016, after his father was killed in fighting in the country’s bloody ...

Once societies become “hate-curious,” they've embarked on a path that can lead to genocide. But all of us can take action to ...