By Timour Azhari DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Syria has foiled two separate Islamic State plots to assassinate President Ahmed al-Sharaa, two senior officials said, adding a personal dimension to the leader's ...

Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ibrahim Olabi, strongly condemned the Israeli aggression that ...

The first time I visited the port city of Latakia, it was timed perfectly with an August sunrise. The taxi driver grabbed a handful of jasmine flower petals drifting just outside the car window as we ...

Friday is the day for public beheadings. — -- In ISIS controlled territory, Friday is the day for public beheadings and amputations for people who violate its strict Islamic rule, and whippings ...

Sara Kontar fled Damascus in 2015, expecting to return. Now, nearly a decade later, French law forbids her from visiting ...

Fourteen people are on trial, charged with crimes related to an outbreak of sectarian violence under the new government. The ...

For Israelis living within sight of Syria — and earshot of the war raging there — daily life presents a peculiar duality. On their side of the line, routines proceed with a kind of neighborly fellow ...

BERLIN — A German court sentenced a Syrian doctor to life imprisonment for torture and war crimes in his Syrian homeland on Monday for killing two people and torturing nine in Syria between 2011 and ...