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

Palmyra was considered one of the world's most intact ancient Roman sites. ISIS blew up many key monuments of this storied ...

Washington has had troops in Syria for years as part of international efforts against the Islamic State (IS) group, which ...

W hen her home was destroyed in the Syrian civil war, Yusra Mardini and her family fled, eventually resettling in Germany.

The Syrian conflict began as part of the Arab Spring, aimed at overthrowing Bashar al-Assad and achieving reform. Over a ...

PA leader Mahmoud Abbas separately meets with Syrian counterpart in Damascus; Syria's FM to reportedly soon visit US as ...

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

Almost immediately after dictator Bashar al-Assad fled, Syria came under attack. Israeli airstrikes have hit several hundred ...

When former leader Bashar al-Assad fell, new Syria war crimes investigations began. But U.S. budget cuts have halted some ...

JEROME DREVON is Senior Analyst in Jihad and Modern Conflict at the International Crisis Group. He is the author of From ...

What happened on April 13, 1975, would change the course of Lebanon. An attack on a bus in Beirut plunged the country into 15 ...

During Syria's civil war, various extremist groups took control of huge swaths of the country. A small cluster of villages in the south, including Koayiah, were even occupied by ISIS from 2015 to ...