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

Israeli forces killed at least 22 people and injured dozens more in southern Lebanon on Sunday, Lebanese officials said. In ...

Israel and Hamas reached a deal to resolve a disagreement over the exchange of a female civilian hostage that had threatened ...

said on Monday in Damascus that the war-torn country's new leadership was committed to finding him. Tice was working as a ...

The mother of US journalist Austin Tice, who went missing in Syria in 2012, said on Monday in Damascus that the war-torn ...

Lebanese prime minister Najib Mikati arrived in Damascus Saturday in the first such visit since before civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, an AFP journalist reported. Thousands of South Koreans ...

A stampede at the landmark Umayyad Mosque in Syria's capital on Friday killed four people, a Damascus health official told state media. "Damascus Health Director Dr Mohammed Akram Maatouq ...

Caretaker prime minister Najib Mikati is to visit Damascus "soon", the information minister said on Tuesday -- the first such visit since Islamist-led rebels seized power in Syria last month. "There ...

This was reported by the agency France-Presse with reference to the family of the deceased. "Jean-Marie Le Pen went to God at 12:00 (14:00 Moscow time) on Tuesday surrounded by his family," the agency ...

Travellers are welcomed at Damascus's airport, which resumed international flights on Tuesday — LOUAI BESHARA International flights resumed at Syria's main airport in Damascus on Tuesday for the first ...

International flights resumed at Syria's main airport in Damascus on Tuesday for the first time since Islamist-led forces toppled president Bashar al-Assad last month. There was an air of ...