Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus bookstores, no ...

European Union foreign ministers have agreed to begin lifting sanctions on Syria, but insist that the measures should be ...

"Regarding Syria, we are going to decide today to lift, to suspend, certain sanctions that had applied to the energy and ...

New Middle East correspondent Henry Bodkin talks to Venetia Rainey about his recent trip to Syria where he went out on the ...

The summer home of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad was once off-limits to ordinary Syrians. Now people are lining up to visit ...

Officers say the move aims to instil a sense of morality as they race to fill a security vacuum after dismantling ousted ...

With Donald Trump now in the White House threatening to make “America Great Again’ the UK has a unique opportunity to make ...

Economy has been battered by corruption and 13 years of civil war. Coupled with international sanctions and mismanagement, ...

But such research was conducted while Assad was still in power, and it has only been several weeks since Assad fell. As a ...

A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...

Built on a hill 30 kilometers from Damascus, the Saidnaya prison has instilled terror in generations of Syrians: a place of ...