The Canadian government on Wednesday announced plans to ease sanctions on Syria during what it called a period of transition.

Syria kept a central role for Islamic law in a constitutional declaration issued on Thursday which guarantees women's rights and freedom of expression during a five-year transitional period, according ...

As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...

The Umayyad Mosque is also distinguished by being the ... from which the square minaret model spread to all parts of Syria, North Africa and Andalusia.

Survivors have shared harrowing accounts of the violence, describing scenes of mass executions and widespread destruction.

Rebuilding Syria will take years and billions of dollars. The first step is stabilizing the economy and improving the living ...

Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa was born in October 1982 in Saudi Arabia, where he spent the first seven years of his life. In a rare ...

I went to Halbouni Mosque, near the historic center of Damascus, for Tarawih prayers. The streets were pitch dark, as the city experiences frequent power cuts at night. When I arrived, I found the ...

DAMASCUS, Syria—Shoppers have long been coming to ... Outside, the remains of the Roman temple of Jupiter lead into the Umayyad Mosque, one of the oldest in the world. The nearby Citadel hosts ...

A report from the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Syria documented systematic ... entering Damascus took place at the ancient Umayyad Mosque. Dressed in military attire and speaking ...

The narrow passages and the splendour of sites like the Umayyad Mosque bear none of the scars ... It took just 2 weeks for Syria's 50-year Assad regime to crumble. Here's how it happened President ...