DAMASCUS, Syria — The newly appointed governor of Damascus has called on the United States to use its influence to push for cordial relations with Israel. In a wide-ranging interview with NPR ...

"Our problem is not with Israel," Governor of Damascus Maher Marwan, appointed by the new administration in Syria, tells NPR. "We don't want to meddle in anything that will threaten Israel's ...

Israel has also seized more territory beyond the already occupied Golan Heights area on the Syrian border with impunity and struck Syrian military targets in Damascus. Assad may be gone ...

Hundreds of demonstrators have taken to the streets in Christian neighborhoods of Damascus after a Christmas tree burning heightened fears that the overthrow of former President Bashar al-Assad ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — This Christmas morning in Syria’s capital, Christians dressed in their finest clothes, attended church and participated in the annual parade through the ancient part of the ...

Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets in Christian areas of Damascus early on Tuesday to protest the burning of a Christmas tree near Hama in central Syria. "We demand the rights of ...

The protests took place in Damascus Monday night after video footage on social media showed hooded figures setting fire to a tree at the intersection of a traffic circle in the majority-Christian ...

Hundreds of people have protested in Christian areas of the Syrian capital of Damascus after a video emerged showing hooded fighters setting a Christmas tree on fire elsewhere in the country.

Protests erupted in Christian neighborhoods of the Syrian capital Damascus after a Christmas tree was set on fire in another town by unidentified men on Monday evening. A video showing men setting ...

"One day, as we sip black coffee on Mount Qasioun and gaze upon al-Sham al-Sharif [noble Damascus], we will say: 'Bashar, what a formidable pig you were,'" wrote the user, who went by the name ...

Mr al-Sharaa swapped his army greens for a suit and tie as he hosted Turkey’s foreign minister Hakan Fidan for a meeting in Damascus. It is part of the Syrian leader’s larger diplomatic push ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met Abu Mohammed al-Jolani (Ahmed Hussein al-Shara), leader of the al-Qaeda-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), during a visit to the Syrian capital Damascus ...