After Syria’s longtime autocratic ruler was toppled late last year, the man who led rebel groups to victory immediately faced a new challenge: unifying the country after more than a decade of civil ...

The fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad's government has aggravated the already tense relations between Turkey and Israel, ...

Sharaa blamed pro-Assad groups backed by foreigners for triggering the bloodshed but acknowledged that revenge killings had ...

Those kidnapped included a retired teacher, an engineering student and a mechanic, all of them Alawite - the minority sect of ...

DAMASCUS - Below are highlights from a Reuters interview with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa conducted on Monday. Read more at straitstimes.com.

DAMASCUS - Close to midnight on March 6, as a wave of sectarian killings began in western Syria, masked men stormed the homes ...

There was quite a buzz in Damascus the other week with the visit of a Jewish delegation that included members of the ...

Faisal Al Kudsi has vivid memories of visiting the Presidential Palace in Damascus when his father, the banker and politician Dr Nazem Al Kudsi, became head of the state in 1961. The decade leading up ...

This headline alludes to works of literature to illustrate political realities, beginning with Ernest Hemingway's “A Farewell to Arms” and up to the Kurdish author Ronak Murad's famous novel about the ...

The accounts by the dozen witnesses in Damascus, however, indicate that sectarian violence unfolded in the southern edges of Syria's capital, a few kilometres from the presidential palace.

The security buffers in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria are "unequivocally" permanent, said Israeli Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fox.The post IDF security zones in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria ‘permanent,’ official sa ...

At the Presidential Palace, Hassan Sheikh said strong ties between the government ... "Mogadishu is not Kabul or Damascus and the al-Shabab are not as strong as they claim. All we need to do is to ...