Rail travel once linked Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, until war and air traffic shut it down. Now, major reconstruction plans aim to revive it over the next 15 years ...

Love him or hate him, I applaud President Donald Trump for lifting all sanctions on the new Syrian government. As someone who has spent a good deal of time in Syria I believe this is a positive step ...

Spotting a rare foreigner in the southern Syrian city of Nawa, Khalil approaches with a business proposal: bring him a “very ...

It was just another bombing in a complicated corner of the Middle East, but this one was important — the Associated Press ...

Christians from both Eastern Catholic and Orthodox backgrounds face threats that put their entire future at risk.

Mourners carry the coffins of victims killed in Sunday’s suicide bombing at Mar Elias Church during a funeral procession at ...

Syrian authorities on Monday announced arrests over a suicide blast targeting a church blamed on the Islamic State group, as ...

After decades of dictatorship and 13 years of civil war, can Syria put itself back together? Our journalists traveled the ...

DAMASCUS -- Syrian security forces said on Monday they had arrested the perpetrators behind Sunday's deadly suicide bombing at a Damascus church, in what officials described as a swift and coordinated ...

Iran has executed two men accused of spying for Israel’s Mossad within just 24 hours, amid soaring tensions with Israel and the United States. Mohammadamin Shayesteh, said to be a cyber-unit leader ...

Damascus, Syria, holds the record as the world's oldest continuously inhabited city, surviving for over 11,000 years. Despite ...

During excavations at the site of a destroyed house in northern Syria, a worker came across an unexpected find: the remains of an ...