Assad boarded a plane and left Damascus for an unknown destination on Sunday, two senior army officers told Reuters. The ...

Abdi also promised to punish authority abusers and solve Raqqa unrest transparently ... issues through dialogue," Abdi said, adding that Syria has a rare chance to rebuild on justice and togetherness.

Russia has accelerated its military withdrawal from Syria and suspended a grain deal with the country over concerns about the ...

January 2014 - An al Qaeda splinter group seizes Raqqa before grabbing territory across Syria and Iraq, declaring a caliphate and renaming itself Islamic State. September 2014 - Washington builds ...

Syria’s new government will have to deal with the challenges of rebuilding the country and its political future after the ...

You live in free Syria.” Worshippers at the Umayyad Mosque hold the revolutionary Syrian flag at Friday prayers (Daniel Hilton/MEE) At the end of prayers, the crowds dispersed into the ...

The “sun of freedom has risen over Syria today,” declared Bishop Hanna Jallouf, head of Syria’s Latin Church, when recently ...

Many of the internally displaced persons, or IDPs, come from the Aleppo, Afrin and Shahba regions and are fleeing to Raqqa and Tabqa in the north and east of Syria. Resources are stretched thin ...

The week-long uprising against Bashar al Assad's government was led by Islamist rebels - but supported by fighters backed by both the US and Turkey.

Syria’s new interim prime minister has called on the country’s millions of refugees around the world to return home.