Rome has been all gussied up for the Catholic Church’s Jubilee Year. An extra 10 million pilgrims are forecast, adding to last year's record of 22 million. More than $8 billion has been spent to ...

Syria's new government, dominated by interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa's inner circle, faces the daunting challenge of ...

Authorities are investigating a break-in at a historic Nike missile site in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area outside San Francisco.

The choice of cabinet officials was seen as a litmus test for whether the rebels who ousted Bashar al-Assad would deliver on ...

Since the downfall of the Baathist regime, Syrians have been speaking more freely about their future – and their doubts in ...

Marook, a sweet bread eaten during Ramadan in Syria, used to be a simple loaf, but now the list of choices can be as long as ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Three months following the overthrow of President Bashar Assad, Syria is at a crossroads, the top U.N.

This Ramadan, Syrians marked the 14th anniversary of the start of their country’s civil war. The conflict began as one of ...

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

BEIJING—China announced Tuesday it will impose additional tariffs of up to 15 percent on imports of key US farm products, including chicken, pork, soy and beef, and also expanded controls on doing ...

Last fall, floodwaters from Hurricane Helene washed out a 1.5-mile segment of the roadway which passes through U.S. Forest ...

Local, state and federal authorities Friday gathered to share updates with U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., who returned to the ...