Armed groups killed entire families, including women and children, during an outbreak of sectarian violence in Syria last ...

An NPR investigation finds that more than 350 Syrian children were secretly placed in orphanages across the capital, Damascus, when the Assad regime was in power. Now, some of them cannot be found.

This past weekend’s sectarian violence was possibly among the bloodiest 72 hours in the modern history of Syria after 14 ...

Entire families including women and children were killed in Syria's coastal region as part of a series of sectarian killings ...

From a Bond villain lair in the rugged heights overlooking Damascus, the all-seeing eye of a notorious Syrian military unit ...

It was opened by British restaurateur Asma Khan in 2017 ... and sends food packages to hospitals as part of the Zakat al Fitr, an obligatory charitable donation of food to the poor and needy ...

The same commander became Syria’s new president after a rebel alliance he led ousted the strongman Bashar al-Assad in December ... the trafficking of women and children, and ransom and extortion ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Hundreds of Syrian politicians and activists gathered Tuesday in Damascus to endorse the opening steps of the country’s political transition, a milestone event after decades ...

Both the previous government (Awami League) and opposition groups recruited, paid, and used children in violence during the July uprising, a United Nations Fact-Finding Mission has reported.

Syria’s interim president met the Chinese ambassador to Damascus on Friday, in the first public bilateral engagement after Beijing-friendly Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad was overthrown in December.

Assad was toppled a year later in a swift offensive by a coalition of rebels led by the Sharaa-led Hayat Tahrir al-Sham , a former al Qaeda affiliate, that ended 54 years of Assad family rule.