Syria's Ministry of Education has announced sweeping changes to the school curriculum, including the removal of any reference ...

Syria is set to attend a meeting of the international chemical weapons watchdog on Wednesday for the first time in the ...

Syria’s cultural heritage faces threats from conflict, neglect, and political shifts. Preservation efforts by UNESCO, local ...

The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

The jailed leader of the PKK called on its members to lay down arms and dissolve the group. If his followers heed that call, ...

The city can finally mourn the tens of thousands of victims of Hafez al-Assad and the massacre he ordered 43 years ago.

Ten years ago, if someone had suggested that Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, could be a stabilizing force in Syria, they would have been dismissed as naïve, possibly ...

Villagers say they worry that incursions into border areas of Syria by Israel’s military could turn into a prolonged occupation. Israel says the raids are needed to protect the border.

Syria’s interim president met the Chinese ... especially in its western Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, with its history of ethnic tensions and separatist movements. Uygurs are a mainly ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria’s new rulers touted a long-awaited national dialogue conference Tuesday as a “rare historic opportunity” to rebuild the country after the fall of President Bashar ...

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