How a veteran with very little experience in foreign intelligence ended up overseeing the nation’s spy agencies.

TEL TAL, Syria (AP) — It was a mournful moment for Christians in Syria. A bell that once summoned residents to worship rang out, but the church was no longer there. The Saint Odisho church was ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — An official with the committee preparing a national dialogue conference in Syria to help chart the country’s future said Friday that it has not been decided whether the ...

PALMYRA, Syria (AP) — Experts are returning to Syria’s war-ravaged heritage sites, hoping to lay the groundwork for restoring them and reviving tourism, which they say could provide a much ...

U.N. special envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen has said that formation of a “new inclusive government” in Damascus by March 1 could pave the way for lifting sanctions imposed by western countries ...

Celebrations erupted around Syria and crowds ransacked President Bashar al-Assad’s luxurious home on December 8 after Islamist-led rebels swept into Damascus and declared that he had fled the ...

MOSCOW, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Russia is planning to hold high-level contacts with Syria in the near future, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday. President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone ...

Farrington High School’s Matthew “Matt” Legg, a 17-year-old junior, didn’t know how to swim growing up in Kalihi but finally learned when he joined Farrington’s surf team, where his ...

This was the first time they had returned to Syria since the 1990s when then-President Hafez al-Assad allowed Jews to leave the country. They met with the Syrian deputy foreign minister at the ...