The United States launches major airstrikes in Syria targeting Islamic State sites after a deadly terrorist attack.

Syria has been rocked by several episodes of sectarian bloodshed since longtime leader Bashar al-Assad, who hails from the ...

Syria's government and its allies on Friday welcomed the final lifting of the most draconian sanctions imposed on the country ...

In Latakia, pro-government counterprotesters throw rocks at Alawite demonstrators, while a group of protesters beat a ...

Officials say a 'terrorist' detonated suicide belt as police protecting New Year's Eve festivities tried to detain him.

AL GHASSANIYEH, Syria — Under a golden autumn sun, Abdallah Ibrahim harvests fistfuls of hard, green olives with evident delight. "We were denied this pleasure for the last 14 years," he sighs.

In the early afternoon of Sept. 14, a stout, square-shouldered man in his mid-60s, wearing a dark suit, gleaming black tie and a thick, neatly trimmed mustache, stepped off the escalator that had just ...