Economy has been battered by corruption and 13 years of civil war. Coupled with international sanctions and mismanagement, ...

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

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

When Bashar al-Assad ruled Syria, merchants like Youssef Rajab kept much of their imported stock hidden for fear of arrest ...

The rebel offensive benefited from careful preparation and the support of Turkey, which occupies territory in Syria’s north ...

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 ...

As insurgents raced across Syria in a surprise offensive launched in the country’s northwest late last year, officials from ...

More than 50,000 Syrian refugees have left Turkey to return home since Bashar al-Assad's ouster. But for many others living ...

The system punished everyone the same, regardless of age ... regardless of whether they were children or the elderly,' said ...

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.

Commercial flights between Turkey and Syria have resumed after 13 years with a Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul to ...

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 ...