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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Some European Union sanctions against Syria are being lifted, France's foreign minister said on Monday, as part of a broader ...

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

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, ...

Once Syria's most influential minority, Alawites struggle to move on from their association with a hated dictator.