Needy families receive Ramadan support as a small remaining Jewish community highlights longstanding ties with Muslim ...

This week's ban on alcohol in Damascus has sparked a debate among Syrians. Some say it's about more than just being able to have a drink, it's about the country's future governance, personal freedoms ...

Syria, now led by a new government headed by Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, has only recently emerged from a decade-long ...

After 15 years of Kurdish self-rule, control shifts to government, with security, integration, economic challenges ahead ...

By Feras Dalatey DAMASCUS, March 17 (Reuters) - Syrian authorities have banned alcohol from restaurants and bars in Damascus, one of the clearest moves yet by the Islamist-led government towards ...

HASSAKEH, Syria (AP) — The Syrian government and the main Kurdish-led force in the country’s northeast have agreed in principle on a plan to merge the U.S.-backed force as a cohesive group into the ...

(JTA) — DAMASCUS, Syria — “This was a Jewish home, and so was that. These were all Jewish homes,” Badriyah Mousa Shatah said as she walked through Damascus’s historic Jewish Quarter, or the “Harat ...

The reopenings are not limited to the Jussiyeh and Yabous crossings, but have been extended to the Masnaa border crossing in Lebanon's Bekaa region, the main land crossing between the two countries. V ...

Syria has opened a newly reactivated air corridor from the northern city of Aleppo toward the Mediterranean Sea for use by foreign airlines as well as ...

Historic Damascene houses reactivated as culturally rooted hospitality projects supporting cultural tourism in Damascus Old ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- Hani Al Sawah recently walked the streets of Damascus, Syria's capital, with wide-eyed excitement. It had been 13 years since the rap artist last was in Syria. Later that night ...