Syria’s president is making a priority of rebuilding his armed forces. Is he just consolidating domestic security or developing a new threat to Israel?

After extensive restoration, the Deir Samaan Citadel, a remarkable ancient religious complex in northern Syria, has reopened ...

Syria has submitted Tawfik Sabouni's The Other Side of the Sun as its candidate for the Best International Feature Film category of the the 99th Academy Awards. It is the first film submitted by Syria ...

Syria’s new political order is being presented as a clean break with dictatorship, while the history of Islamist armed groups, foreign intervention and the destruction of the Syrian state is pushed ...

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa hailed the United States’ removal of his country from the “state sponsors of terrorism” list, a major sanctions relief step for a country aiming to boost post-war ...

The Syrian Civil War began in 2011 and led to 15 years of bloodshed. Though Syria’s former ruler Bashar al-Assad was driven from power in December 2024, much of the harm inflicted on the civilian ...

Syria’s minister of social affairs and labor on Wednesday approved the registration of a Jewish organization for the first time in the country’s history. Hind Kabawat, the first woman appointed to ...

Once a member of al Qaeda and the Islamic State and now leading Syria’s fragile transition since toppling the Bashar Assad regime, Ahmed al-Sharaa is ready to take to the global center stage at the ...

The state of affairs in modern Syria has produced some of the most impactful fiction in Arabic literature. Across decades marked by the decline of Ottoman rule, the French mandate, coups, ...