Among the sacred places mentioned in Islamic sources are Mecca, Sinai, and Jerusalem, but also Syria (the Shām) and ...

Cyclist Bassel Soufi visits the summer resort of ousted Bashar al-Assad as he tours a part of his daily training in Burj ...

The fall of the Assad regime marks a turning point in Syria’s history. But it also opens a ‘chapter fraught with peril’ for ...

Sham, which toppled the regime of Bashar al-Assad, governed Syria's Idlib province with a mix of repression and pragmatism.

President-elect Donald Trump plans to launch a mass deportation operation targeting millions of immigrants living in the U.S.

Syria, part of the ancient world, that figures prominently in Jewish history, came under the sway of the Muslim Ottoman Empire based in Turkey. The Ottoman Empire ruled the land from 1516 to the end ...

China’s leadership is not happy about the fall of Assad. But compared to Russia and Iran, Beijing had far less at stake.

Some Syrians say there might have been more sectarian violence in the aftermath of Assad's ouster had his forces mounted a ...

The church bells still ring in Syria’s ancient Christian enclaves, but their sound carries a bittersweet resonance. Two weeks ...

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