DAMASCUS, Syria — The newly appointed governor of Damascus has called on the United States to use its influence to push for cordial relations with Israel. In a wide-ranging interview with NPR ...

"Our problem is not with Israel," Governor of Damascus Maher Marwan, appointed by the new administration in Syria, tells NPR. "We don't want to meddle in anything that will threaten Israel's ...

Israel has also seized more territory beyond the already occupied Golan Heights area on the Syrian border with impunity and struck Syrian military targets in Damascus. Assad may be gone ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A Syrian family that survived a 2013 chemical weapons attack on a suburb in Damascus recounted how they ...

A Syrian family that survived a 2013 chemical weapons attack that killed hundreds of people near the country’s capital, Damascus, says the ordeal they experienced haunts them to this day.

Hundreds of demonstrators have taken to the streets in Christian neighborhoods of Damascus after a Christmas tree burning heightened fears that the overthrow of former President Bashar al-Assad ...

A Qatar Airways diplomatic flight landed in Damascus on Monday, 23 December 2024, marking the first international flight from Qatar to land at the Syrian capital’s airport since the fall of ...

Doha, Qatar: Qatar will provide technical assistance and support to the new Syrian administration to make Damascus International Airport operational, said Dr. Majed bin Mohammad Al Ansari yesterday.

Scores of Syrian Christians protested in the capital Damascus on Tuesday, demanding greater protections for their religious minority after a Christmas tree was set on fire in the city of Hama a ...

Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets in Christian areas of Damascus early on Tuesday to protest the burning of a Christmas tree near Hama in central Syria. "We demand the rights of ...

The protests took place in Damascus Monday night after video footage on social media showed hooded figures setting fire to a tree at the intersection of a traffic circle in the majority-Christian ...