visits the eighth-century Umayyad Mosque in the old city of Damascus Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani met Syria's new ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus Friday, state media said, in the ...

Further reading: Rebuilding Syria, a vision for unity ... The new Syrian leader even visited the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus January 4 to offer his condolences to the scholar, who had just lost ...

As Türkiye and Syria intensify efforts to increase their cooperation in the wake of the Assad regime's collapse, a significant diplomatic ...

Syria’s Islamist leaders pledged to respect religious freedom despite their radical past. Many Christians and Shiites are ...

Syria's new Islamist leaders are undertaking a radical overhaul of the country's broken economy, including plans to fire a ...

Russian officials arrived in Damascus, Syria on Jan.28, the first such delegation to visit the country since its ...

With pills to calm his heart and CCTV monitoring his stairs, one man set out to hold politicians, police and even regime ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Syrian civil defense workers, known as the White Helmets, collect human remains found in two separate ...

9, 2025. (Lebanese Parliament media office via AP) People gather to enter Umayyad Mosque for Friday prayers, in Damascus, Syria, Friday, Jan. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy) People gather to ...

By Christina Goldbaum Reporting from Damascus, Syria The rebel coalition that seized control of Syria last month appointed its leader, Ahmed al-Shara, as president of the country to preside over a ...