Maaloula is one of the world's few places where residents still speak Aramaic, the language that Jesus is believed to have used. The town is also home to Syria's two oldest active

The commander of the Kurdish-led forces that control northeastern Syria said that a call by the leader of the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Turkey for the PKK to dissolve did not apply to the group he leads.

Comics had already been trying to foster stand-up in Syria before Bashar al-Assad’s fall. Now, they are telling jokes in a liberated country, while warily eyeing the new government.

Idlib offers a glimpse of what Syria’s new leaders can create—though it came at a price.

U.S. Central Command announced on Saturday that it had killed a senior military leader of an Al-Qaeda affiliate known as Hurras al-Din in an airstrike in Syria.

Israel is lobbying the United States to keep Syria weak and decentralised, including by letting Russia keep its military bases there to counter Turkey's growing influence in the country, four sources familiar with the efforts said.

Syrian first responders say some unexploded ordnance blew up inside a home in the country's northwest, killing four people, including two women and a child.

The Israeli army said on Tuesday an earlier report of suspected aerial targets in the Golan Heights area was the result of false identification.

Thousands of Jews left Syria in 1992, when they were allowed to emigrate. The visit by a small delegation of U.S.-based Syrian Jewish religious figures last week was their first time back since then.