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

Three months after the overthrow of President Bashar Assad, Syria is at a crossroads, the top U.N. envoy for the country says ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Sahar Diab had visited Damascus’ famed Umayyad Mosque previously. But as the Syrian lawyer went there to pray during her country’s first Ramadan after the end of the ...

The one thing holding Syria together now is Ahmed al-Sharaa, who has taken on the near-impossible job of teaching his people ...

It is ironic that during Harmony Week, three online violent threats were directed at mosques in Sydney — which caused many ...

The bloodletting between Alawites and forces backing Syria’s new government surprised many. But tensions had been building ...

Civic groups like the White Helmets are using acts of equality and kindness to overcome ethnic and religious tensions built up during a half-century of dictatorship ...

The recent surge of violence in Syria lays bare the challenges interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa faces in delivering on his promise to lead a more unified country.

Masaoudiyeh (Lebanon) (AFP) – When he arrived in the town of Masaoudiyeh in northern Lebanon earlier this month, fleeing massacres on Syria's Mediterranean ... of others at a mosque in Masaoudiyeh.

AFP becomes one of the main source for international news. We've got various news from around the world. I can say that AFP news content is diverse and credible, and they can fit with the ...

She's filed stories from the bottom of a coal mine, the top of a mosque in Qinghai and inside a cave Chairman Mao once lived in. In 2024, she was chosen by Boston University for their Hugo Shong ...