The article explores why Syria, despite its early independence, was unable to establish a democracy, instead evolving into a ...

This six-day journey through pristine and remote Walls of Jerusalem National Park is rated one of Australia’s greatest walks.

Anticipation is growing as Israel and Hamas appear to be at the closest point yet to sealing a deal to end 15 months of war. Key mediator Qatar said it ...

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

Anticipation is growing as Israel and Hamas appear to be at the closest point yet to sealing a deal to end 15 months of war.

The ceasefire deal is expected to include six-week initial truce phase and an exchange of Palestinian prisoners for Israeli ...

The European Union's foreign policy chief says the bloc's foreign ministers will discuss easing sanctions imposed on Syria at a Jan. 27 meeting in Brussels. Kaja Kallas’ comments came at ...

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Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati arrived in Damascus Saturday in the first such visit since before civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, an AFP journalist reported.

Three women were killed and several injured, including five children, in a stampede at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus Friday, ...

A stampede at the landmark Umayyad Mosque in Syria's capital on Friday killed four people, a Damascus health official told state media.

Four people were killed and 16 injured in a stampede in the landmark Umayyad Mosque in Damascus on Friday, the Syrian state news agency (SANA) said.