Repeated blasts at military sites expose the risks facing Syria as it rebuilds its army after years of war.

On Tuesday (Aug 11), a Damascus court sentenced former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia for premeditated killings, torture, arbitrary arrests and crimes against humanity committed ...

Syria’s health system is buckling under the pressure of a mass influx of returnees following the fall of the Assad government, new research suggests. Nearly 1.4 million Syrians have returned from ...

Three of them, women in their 20s, could barely remember a time before war. Their adult lives had unfolded under siege, sanctions, and surveillance, and now under something more uncertain. “The ...

Syria Fuel Price Hikes Trigger Widest Protests Since Assad Fall By Feras Dalatey , Mahmoud Hasano and Firas Makdesi ALEPPO, Syria, Sept 14 (Reuters) - ⁠A ⁠sharp rise in fuel prices at ⁠the weekend has ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. For the first time in decades, U.S. policy toward Syria offers ...

Poor governance in the Druze-majority Suwayda governorate means that the Syrian government may only have to wait to ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The fall of Bashar al-Assad has freed Syria from decades of Iranian ...

Sentence is first to be handed down by Syria to toppled president Syrians celebrate in Deraa, birthplace of anti-Assad protests in 2011 Court also sentences Assad's brother Maher, ex-security official ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani at a meeting with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief in Damascus ...

QAMISHLI, Syria — The children running through the courtyard of a school in this northeastern city are a blur of motion. But they're not students at recess — they are members of displaced families ...

Lebanon has extradited a former senior member of Bashar al-Assad’s army to Syria for the first time since the dictator was ousted. Adel Issa, 67, who was a major general in the Syrian army’s 17th ...