The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved resolutions Wednesday demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and ...

Nadia’s eyes were full of tears as she crossed the border from Syria to Lebanon. She was finally going to see her son. A ...

Israeli airstrikes in northern and central Gaza killed at least 33 people overnight, Palestinian medical officials said ...

Israel carried out a wave of heavy airstrikes across Syria as its troops advanced deeper into the country, a Syrian ...

Syrian rebel fighters have destroyed the tomb of former president Hafez al-Assad, father of ousted president Bashar al-Assad, ...

Rebel forces in Syria captured the capital Damascus and toppled the regime of President Bashar Assad in a lightning-quick ...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a speech Wednesday that the U.S. and Israel were behind the fall of ...

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Bashar al-Assad is safely ensconced in Russia, which had long supported his prison state with arms, fighter jets, and forces ...

Syria's major cities Damascus and Aleppo appear relatively calm, but the seemingly stable beginnings of the transition ...

The country had achieved 100% literacy; women enjoyed equal rights with men; its many minorities and the Al Assad dynasty, ...

Alois Brunner, once the world's most wanted Nazi, spent his final years in a cell in Damascus, where he was given the choice ...