BEIRUT (AP) — A delegation from the global chemical weapons watchdog arrived in Damascus Saturday to meet with Syria’s new leaders for the first time since the fall of former President Bashar Assad.

Northeast Syria, he said, is enduring a silent tragedy. The region is struggling to cope with the influx of internally ...

An Apache helicopter patrolled the outskirts of the city of Hassakeh as a heavily loaded pickup truck, filled with displaced ...

The sudden collapse of the long-standing Assad regime in Syria last December unleashed a wave of trouble for most Syrians, ...

Gabbard also faced scrutiny for a 2017 visit to Syria to meet then-President Bashar al-Assad. The trip came after the US ...

Lawmakers are set to grill Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel, three of Trump’s most controversial Cabinet ...

Russia lost a key ally when the Syrian President was ousted by Islamist rebels last month. NPR visited a Russian air base in western Syria to examine how Moscow will fare under Syria's new rulers.

A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...

For more than a decade, Mr. al-Assad remained in power, employing vicious means to do so while enjoying an obscene amount of ...

The ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas stretched into a fifth day on Thursday. Humanitarian aid groups are working to surge food and supplies to the war-ravaged territory as Palestinians scour ...

Turkish media showed Syrian families draped in their national flag singing pro-opposition songs and cheering as they prepared ... Since the lightning rebel offensive that ousted Syrian President ...

Assad, the ophthalmologist-turned-dictator who ruled Syria with an iron fist. This video examines his early promises of reform, the brutal suppression of dissent during the Damascus Spring, and his ...