Syria will retain Islamic jurisprudence as the main basis of law and will preserve freedom of opinion and expression, ...

Canada will ease financial sanctions on Syria and appoint an ambassador, signaling support for Damascus' interim government ...

Syria’s interim president has said that millions would return after President Bashar al-Assad’s ouster, but many houses and other buildings were destroyed in 13 years of civil war.

As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...

After violence broke out between the current and past regimes in Syria, fearful residents have waded across a river to take ...

I went to Halbouni Mosque, near the historic center of Damascus, for Tarawih prayers. The streets were pitch dark, as the city experiences frequent power cuts at night. When I arrived, I found the ...

The government of Syria says it has ended an operation in the coastal governorates of Latakia and Tartous after four days of ...

Syria's president is calling for unity after hundreds of members of a religious minority were killed in the country's coastal region. It's being called a massacre - revenge attacks after an ambush of ...

Syria’s interim president has told worshippers at a mosque in Damascus “national unity and civil peace” must be maintained, as the death toll reportedly exceeds 1,000.

More than 1,000 people have been killed in clashes in the coastal provinces of Syria, according to one war monitoring group.

Hundreds of civilians were killed in coastal areas after deadly clashes broke out. Read more at straitstimes.com.