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

At the start of the new year, 115,000 Syrians had already returned home from Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. In December, the ...

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

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

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 ...

At the same time, Khalil began working at the British government’s mission to Syria, which was headquartered in Beirut, ...

With more than 7.4 million Syrians still displaced inside the country, a lack of housing, work and services is preventing many from going home, with more international support needed to ensure returns ...

Gaza’s ministry of health said at least 44 people were killed in the new wave of airstrikes across the Gaza Strip early ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Family members hold pictures of their relatives who disappeared in ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Abdulwahab Omira escaped Syria's civil war with his family as a teenager ... at the presidential palace in 2012. But before that took place, Omira was stopped on the street ...

The attack Thursday near the port city of Latakia reopened the wounds of the country’s 13-year civil war and sparked the ... that lifting sanctions before Syria transitions into an inclusive ...