The former US Marine was abducted in government-controlled areas while reporting on Syria ... physical locations that must be investigated,” he says back at his office in Washington DC, holding ...

Two Republican congressmen were expected to meet the country’s new leaders and to visit areas destroyed during the long civil ...

Syria’s civil war drove a wedge between the residents of the small town of Maaloula, where two-thirds are Christian and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

It’s Monday. Let’s shift into the new week. Dominique Soguel writes today about a people’s will to rise up in the aftermath of Syria’s devastating 14-year civil war, and about hopes for ...

At least six people have been killed in an Israeli attack on Koya in southern Syria, the country’s foreign ministry says. The Israeli military said the attack on Tuesday took place after armed ...

The fighters, nominally aligned with Syria’s new government, had descended on the region and were looking for Alawites – a religious minority to which Syria’s former leader Bashar al-Assad ...

Kurdish parties agree on federalism as common political vision Kurdish-led groups control a quarter of Syrian territory Kurds have criticised path set by Islamist president Joint announcement by ...

Days before his troops overthrew the regime of Bashar Assad, Ahmad al-Sharaa declared that Syria deserves a system in which no “single ruler makes arbitrary decisions.” Sharaa, once a feared ...

WASHINGTON/BEIRUT, March 25 (Reuters) - The United States has handed Syria a list of conditions that it wants Damascus to fulfill in exchange for partial sanctions relief, six people familiar with ...

KOAYIAH, Syria (AP) — An Israeli strike Tuesday in southwestern Syria killed at least six people as Israeli troops occupying the area clashed with local residents, Syria’s Foreign Ministry and ...