Relations between Beirut and Damascus remain tense — as they have been for decades past, a time during which Syria failed to ...

A lot has happened in just a year on both sides of the Lebanon-Syria border. A lightning offensive by Islamist insurgents in Syria toppled longtime autocrat Bashar Assad and brought a new gov ...

Syria plans to hold parliamentary elections in September, according to the head of the election organizing body.

DAMASCUS (AP) — Ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad said Monday he wanted to stay in the country after rebels captured the capital, but the Russian military evacuated him from their base in ...

A U.N.-backed commission that investigated sectarian violence on Syria's coast earlier this year found that there was ...

A U.N.-backed commission has found widespread and systematic violence against civilians in Syria's coastal region ...

Russia's top diplomat has met with Syria's new foreign minister for talks in Moscow during the first formal visit by a Syrian official since President Bashar Assad was ousted last year despite years o ...

Assad’s exit stood in stark contrast to his first months as Syria’s unlikely president in 2000, when many hoped he would be a young reformer after three decades of his father’s iron grip.

Amidst the turmoil in Gaza, Israel’s war against Hamas and Hezbollah, security concerns in the Red Sea following attacks by ...

Syria's future as a unified state hangs in the balance as both countries pursue long-standing plans to cement hegemonic ...

BEIRUT – Syrian President Bashar Assad fled the country on Sunday, bringing to a dramatic close his nearly 14-year struggle to hold onto control as his country fragmented in a brutal civil war ...

GENEVA (Reuters) -War crimes were likely committed by interim government forces as well as by fighters loyal to Syria's ...