Residents of Syria’s capital are picnicking on a once-forbidden mountaintop and trading openly in dollars and imported ...

Syrian rebels have declared the capital Damascus “liberated” after entering the city to scant resistance from regime forces, while claiming President Bashar al-Assad has fled the capital ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad faced ... seized a sweep of southern cities, and closed in on Damascus, the capital. Rebels accumulated regime territory at lighting pace as an offensive from ...

Syria's Jewish population dwindles to nine, reflecting centuries of history and resilience amid upheaval. Residents recall a ...

The Syrian army said it was reinforcing around Damascus, and state television reported on Saturday that Assad remained in the city. Outside the city, rebels swept across the entire southwest over ...

A coalition of Syrian rebels say they have toppled the government of President Bashar al-Assad and captured the Syrian ...

Damascus fell not long after rebels on Friday besieged the Syrian city of Homs with a rapid assault on government forces that left three of the country’s five largest cities in their hands and ...

International flights in and out of Syria’s main airport in Damascus will resume next week after being halted since rebels ...

boarded a plane and left Damascus for parts unknown, two senior army officers told Reuters. A rebel fighter gestures in Homs countryside, after Syrian rebels pressed their lightning advance on ...

Former Syrian rebels who now serve as part of the new Syrian government's armed forces posed for portraits with their weapons ...