The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for two attacks in southern Syria, including one on government forces that an opposition war monitor described as the first on the Syrian army to be ...

With the former dictator Bashar al-Assad gone, comedians in Syria see a new moment for the art form. They have been putting together shows at cafes and clubs across Damascus. The World’s Shirin Jaafar ...

The extremist group claimed responsibility for two attacks, its first against the new government since the fall of Bashar ...

The extremist group, which once controlled large parts of Syria and Iraq, has opposed the new authority in Damascus led by ...

The bombings mark a sharp escalation by the armed group, which views the new government in Damascus as illegitimate.

The Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, has claimed its first attack on the new Syrian government's forces since ...

Syria’s minister of social affairs and labor says the lifting of sanctions will allow her government to begin work on daunting tasks that include fighting corruption and bringing millions of refugees ...

German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) has aired a report confirming long-circulating claims of Polisario fighters’ involvement in the Syrian civil war, exposing once more the deep-rooted ties ...

Washington has yet to formally reopen its embassy in Syria, which closed in 2012 after protests the government of strongman ...

French filmmaker Jonathan Millet directs a tense drama about a refugee searching for the man who tortured him in prison in ...

On May 23, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued Syria General License ...

Thomas Barrack raised the American flag over the U.S. ambassador’s residence in Damascus, amid broader efforts by the Trump ...