DAMASCUS, Syria — The United Nations human rights chief on Wednesday called for the lifting of Western sanctions imposed on ...

A packed concert hall in Damascus came alive this week with cheers as Wasfi Maasarani, a renowned singer and symbol of the ...

Washington needs a plan to create conditions for future U.S. investment to stabilize Syria — and to make sure Russia doesn’t ...

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha raised a flag over the country’s honorary consulate in Damascus, Syria, during a trip on Monday, December 30. Footage shared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ...

But its successful defense of Assad allowed the Kremlin to sell itself as an exporter of security, both officially through the Russian armed forces, and unofficially, through mercenaries such as the ...

When Syria's dictatorship fell, celebrations broke out around the world, including in Ohio, where Mohammed al-Refai, a ...

Syrians wave the flag of Russia and a portrait of Bashar ... the Russian Defense Ministry took control of Wagner's assets in Syria. Recruitment continued. Screenshot of Wagner mercenary group ...

Syria's new government have arrested a top military official responsible for issuing thousands of death sentences in the country's infamous Sednaya prison under former leader Bashar al-Assad, UK ...

An NGO says Mohammed Kanjo Hassan sentenced thousands of people to death. He was arrested by Syria's new authorities, together with his entourage. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human ...

Syria's new authorities have arrested a military justice official who under ousted president Bashar al-Assad issued death sentences for detainees in the notorious Saydnaya prison, a war monitor ...

Syria was already so heavily sanctioned that few cords connecting it to the global financial system were left to cut. "We're talking about a country whose economy is about the size of Pittsburgh's ...