The United Nations human rights chief has called for the lifting of Western sanctions imposed on Syria over its yearslong ...

Turkey is ready to provide support to the new Syrian administration for the management of Islamic State camps in the country, ...

Inclusivity and moderation are indeed immediate priorities for Syria, but a big national vote is not. Democracy does not ...

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

Svenja Schulze was in Damascus to discuss a new program that would see German doctors train their Syrian colleagues. Many ...

In a Damascus courtyard, Syrian activists brainstormed strategies to ensure their country does not return to authoritarianism ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s order for Israeli troops to “take over” a buffer zone with Syria upended decades of ...

As Syria’s new Islamist rulers reshape the way schools teach the nation’s history, students struggle to navigate the traumas ...

But as a new government takes shape in Damascus, Syrians and foreign observers alike worry about how inclusive, ...

Some governments are hesitant to boost funding for urgent humanitarian needs in Syria under the country's new interim rulers ...

The rebel alliance that took power has vowed to prosecute senior figures from the ousted government, but accountability will ...