René Wildangel takes a look at who exactly are the Islamists that drove Syrian dictator Assad from the country.

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

Officials say that Turkish Airlines will resume its flights to Damascus, Syria, next week after a halt of more than a decade.

Syria's new authorities have detained an Egyptian Islamist militant who fought against Bashar al-Assad's rule over threats he ...

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said the extent of atrocities committed in Syria is hard to believe and ...

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

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk called on Wednesday for a Syrian national reconciliation process to ...

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

Brett Holmgren got woken up early on New Year's Day by alerts that a driver had plowed into a crowd of revelers in New ...

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

Qatari and Hamas officials say a ceasefire has been reached to pause Israel’s war in Gaza and release dozens of hostages.