Syria’s status as a classic Middle East tourist definition was shredded by civil war. Visitors are now beginning to return, ...

Syrians are once again picnicking and smoking shisha amid the ruins of ancient Palmyra, once desecrated by jihadists but ...

The long anticipated return home for residents of the Syrian town of Tel Rifaat, displaced since 2014, has collided with a painful reality — scars of war, streets lined with rubble and ruins standing ...

In an ancient city in Syria, excavations made nearly a century ago are now revealing new details, researchers said. Joe Planas via Unsplash Nearly a century ago, Danish archaeologists traveled to the ...

In the Biblical site of Abel Beth Maacah in northern Israel, archaeologists have discovered ancient Roman tablets revealing ...

Syria’s new authorities terminated a contract this week with a Russian company that had managed the port of Tartous for more than five years, further restricting the Russian presence in the country ...

Where, when and how did civilians organize during the Syrian civil war that started in the aftermath of the Arab Spring in 2011 and lasted until the toppling of President Bashar Assad in late 2024?

Syria’s new government has canceled a 49-year lease signed with Russia to operate the port of Tartus, home to Moscow’s sole naval base on the Mediterranean Sea. The lease, signed in 2017 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Syria’s new rulers plan to privatise state-owned ports and factories, invite foreign investment and boost ...

France has issued a new arrest warrant for former Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad on charges related to war crimes committed in 2017, according to a source close to the case. Assad, who was ...

The Kurdish forces guarding ISIS fighters at a jail in northern Syria say they are opposed to handing the facility to the new rulers in Damascus as they brace for attacks by the ultra-hardline ...