Commercial flights between Turkey and Syria have resumed after 13 years with a Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul to Damascus.

As the long-awaited ceasefire comes into effect, here’s a look – in 6 graphics – at what Gaza is like after 15 months of war.

A new map created by theologian John Walsh traces the final moments of Jesus’ life, combining biblical accounts and ...

No country has as much to gain from a stable Syria as Turkey, and few have as much to lose if it implodes. Turkey is home to more than 3m Syrian refugees, and wants Syria to be safe enough for many to ...

A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital, an essential link between Europe and the Arabian ...

Researchers uncovered a 13,000-year-old sandstone model in France’s Ségognole 3 rock shelter, possibly the world’s oldest 3D ...

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

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 ...

In-depth: Daraya, an epicentre of non-violent resistance, faced massacres and starvation under the Assad regime. Now free, ...

Syrians returned on Wednesday to the national museum in Damascus, reopened for the first time since Islamist-led forces seized the capital and ousted president Bashar al-Assad. The antiquities ...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey is planning to start flights to Syria's Damascus in the coming days, Turkish Transport Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said on Thursday. "We are planning a flight from ...

Gaza's Health Ministry says Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 17 Palestinians, nearly all of them women or children.