The summer home of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad was once off-limits to ordinary Syrians. Now people are lining up to visit ...

Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus bookstores, no ...

European Union foreign ministers have agreed to begin lifting sanctions on Syria, but insist that the measures should be ...

New Middle East correspondent Henry Bodkin talks to Venetia Rainey about his recent trip to Syria where he went out on the ...

Syrians have been the world’s largest refugee population. More than 6 million Syrians have fled the country since 2011, when ...

A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...

"Regarding Syria, we are going to decide today to lift, to suspend, certain sanctions that had applied to the energy and ...

Built on a hill 30 kilometers from Damascus, the Saidnaya prison has instilled terror in generations of Syrians: a place of ...

Officers say the move aims to instil a sense of morality as they race to fill a security vacuum after dismantling ousted ...

Supporters of the revolution in Rojava, Oğuz Yüzgeç and Sercan Üstündaş spent the last three years in a Damascus jail.

Gabbard’s 2017 trip to Syria, where she met with authoritarian leader Bashar al-Assad, is expected to be a focus of questions ...

Economy has been battered by corruption and 13 years of civil war. Coupled with international sanctions and mismanagement, ...