Despite protest over Syria's more "Islamic" curriculum changes, there are parallel priorities, observers say. After 14 years of war, millions of children remain out of school, and schools need to be ...

The mother of American journalist Austin Tice, who was taken captive during a reporting trip to Syria in August 2012, arrived ...

The savagery of the conflict has been grotesque and remained so up to the last moment, with 101 people in Gaza, including 27 ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Thursday his Cabinet won’t meet to approve the agreement for a ...

US officials confirmed that a ceasefire has been reached between Israel and Hamas that would pause the war in Gaza and ...

The huge toppled statue of former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad in the Damascus countryside town of Deir Atiyam in Qalamoun ...

As Syria’s new Islamist rulers reshape the way schools teach the nation’s history, students struggle to navigate the traumas ...

People celebrate, after Syrian rebels announced that they have ousted President Bashar al-Assad, at Majdal Anjar in Bekaa, ...

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - The head of an American organisation focused on hostage releases said on Monday he believes U.S.

Austin Tice, an American journalist, was abducted in Syria in 2012 and has been missing since. The fall of the Assad regime is a chance to find him.

Prime Minister Najib Mikati's trip came after Islamist-led rebels seized Damascus last month, bringing an end to the rule of ...