The governor of Damascus faces backlash after he tells NPR that he wants the U.S. to mediate cordial relations with Israel.

Former President Jimmy Carter dies at the age of 100. High-ranking Syrian official makes unprecedented comments about relations with Israel. South Korea mourns victims of deadly aviation disaster.

Now that the Assad regime in Syria has fallen, the full scale of that government’s production and distribution of illicit drugs is coming to light. Leila Molana-Allen reports from the drug factories ...

Rebel forces have taken control of several Syrian cities since launching an offensive against the government more than a week ago The leader of the Islamist group leading an insurgency in Syria ...

The fall of Bashar al-Assad was almost unthinkable just a week ago, when rebels started their astonishing campaign against the regime from their base in Idlib, in Syria's north-west. This is a ...

Syria hopes for "strategic partnerships" with Ukraine, its new foreign minister told his Ukrainian counterpart, as Kyiv moves to build ties with the new Islamist rulers in Damascus amid waning ...