At least in the capital, Damascus, the Christian holiday festivities were protected and joyfully observed. Religious ...

Syria’s president has received a Republican member of Congress in the first visit to the country by American legislators ...

DAMASCUS, Syria -- Two Republican members of the U.S. Congress were in the Syrian capital Friday on an unofficial visit organized by a Syrian-American nonprofit, the first by U.S. legislators ...

By Christina Goldbaum Reporting from Damascus, Syria For years, Ahmed al-Shara was the leader of a rebel group once allied with Al Qaeda that was fighting the rule of President Bashar al-Assad in ...