Syrians are voting indirectly, and President Ahmed al-Shara is appointing a third of the lawmakers. Still, some see this as a ...

In the first elections since the Assad regime was ousted, there was no popular vote and women and minorities won few seats.

Syria held its first elections since the ousting of strongman President Bashar al-Assad in December in what the people hope ...

The U.S. effort to fight ISIS will refocus on Syria as troops draw down from Iraq over the next year, a defense official said ...

Syrian Defence Minister Murhaf Abu Qasra and the commander of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), General Mazloum ...

In March, Israel imposed a total blockade on Gaza that would last for 2 1/2 months and ended the truce with a surprise ...

War and neglect have turned Deir Az Zor’s oilfields into rivers of carcinogenic waste seeping into Syrian soil.

Voting in 10 districts in the Druze -majority Sweida province and Kurdish-controlled areas the north was indefinitely ...

Local committees in Syria cast their ballots for members of a transitional parliament in a process criticised as undemocratic ...

It is a milestone in the country's shift away from the ousted regime of Bashar al-Assad and a major test of inclusivity.

A decade after 1 million migrants arrived in Germany from war-torn countries like Syria, Iran and Afghanistan, the country ...

The Dura Europos synagogue was painted around 244 CE but was filled with dirt just a decade later by the Roman garrison ...