Those kidnapped included a retired teacher, an engineering student and a mechanic, all of them Alawite - the minority sect of toppled leader Bashar al-Assad.

With the country's new transitional government now in place, there are hopes this famous old city will begin to recover.

When former leader Bashar al-Assad fell, new Syria war crimes investigations began. But U.S. budget cuts have halted some ...

Three months after the overthrow of President Bashar Assad, Syria is at a crossroads, the top U.N. envoy for the country says. Geir Pedersen told the U.N.

international organizations and Syrian public institutions" in the Syrian capital Damascus. "Methods of attack could include, but are not limited to, individual attackers, armed gunmen ...

South Korea has established diplomatic relations with Syria’s new Islamist government months after longtime leader Bashar ...

Omer Bolat to hold bilateral and delegation meetings with his counterparts on various issues, including trade, customs, ...

Across the border in Syria, where former President Bashar Assad was unseated in a lightning rebel offensive in December, Newroz celebrations took place openly in the streets of the capital for the ...

(photo credit: Khalil Ashawi/Reuters) Close to midnight on March 6, as a wave of sectarian killings began in western Syria, masked men stormed the homes of Alawite families in the capital Damascus ...

Exclusive-How Syria's Sectarian Violence Spread to Capital, Terrorizing Alawites By Maya Gebeily, Timour Azhari and Feras Dalatey DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Close to midnight on March 6, as a wave of ...