A court in Paris has accused the overthrown Syrian ruler of complicity in war crimes in relation to a deadly attack on ...

Despite Syrian President Bashar Assad's ouster last month in a lightning insurgency, the country’s dire economic conditions haven't changed.

The news in the Middle East is so good, it looks as if peace might break out any moment. Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire. They have already exchanged three Israeli hostages for 90 ...

Syria's new authorities are using Islamic teachings to train a fledgling police force, a move officers say aims to instil a ...

The move to put religion at the center of policing risks seeding new rifts in a diverse country awash with guns after 13 years of civil war and alienating foreign governments they have been trying ...

Anastasia Moran is the former associate director for advocacy at the Rescue Committee, where she led the group’s advocacy with the U.S. government and the World Bank. She previously served as the U.S.

The ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas stretched into a fifth day on Thursday. Humanitarian aid groups are working to surge food and supplies to the war-ravaged territory as Palestinians scour ...

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud will visit Damascus on Friday and meet with top officials in the new Syrian administration, a Syrian official said on Thursday.

Syria's central bank has ordered commercial banks to freeze all accounts tied to people and companies linked to the ousted regime of former President Bashar al-Assad, according to a document seen by ...

U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi called Thursday for cooperation between Syria's new authorities, host countries and donors to secure the return of 6.2 million Syrian refugees to ...

International commercial flights have resumed at Damascus International Airport for the first time since the ousting of Bashar al-Assad.

After the ouster of Syria's longtime leader Bashar al-Assad last month, Israel's military has taken up a new post in the demilitarized buffer zone created in Syria after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.