At a Damascus intersection, young volunteers act as unofficial traffic cops after police assigned to the duty deserted their ...

Part of a stateless ethnic group straddling Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Armenia and Syria, Kurds have so far been among the few ...

Syria’s leadership isn’t the only aspect of the country to be changing as a result of this month’s toppling of longtime ...

As rebels advanced toward the Syrian capital of Damascus on December 7, the staff in the hilltop Presidential Palace prepared ...

It is at night that the past comes back to haunt Don McCullin, 90 next year, one of Britain’s greatest living photographers.

Assad's Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shia Islam whose members make up one of Syria's biggest religious minorities. Alawites ...

A rocket fired from Yemen hit an area of Tel Aviv overnight, leaving 16 people injured by shattered glass, the Israeli ...

The Islamist-led fighters who overthrew president Bashar al-Assad nearly two weeks ago on Saturday named Assaad al-Shibani as foreign minister in the transitional government.

The leader of the rebel forces group that took back Damascus from Bashar al-Assad will now rule without fear of a $10 million ...

Qatar reopened its embassy in Damascus on Saturday, 13 years after it was closed early in Syria's civil conflict, as foreign governments seek to establish ties with the country's new rulers.

With hostile Turkish-backed groups mobilising against them in Syria's north, and Damascus ruled by a group friendly to Ankara ...