BEIRUT — Syria on Saturday detained a prominent Damascus-based Palestinian official whose group was close to the government of ousted president Bashar Assad. Talal Naji, 79, the leader of the ...

The Jewish community in Syria has shrunk to just a handful of people nowadays — Bakr ALKASEM A group of Syrian-American Jews prayed in a synagogue in Damascus on Tuesday, an AFP photographer reported, ...

Authorities in Syria have assured a thorough investigation into clashes that are reported to have killed 13 people in a town near the capital, Damascus, largely populated by the country’s Druze ...

Israeli fighter jets struck near the presidential palace in Damascus, the Syrian capital, early on Friday, in what Israel’s leaders said was a message to President Ahmed al-Sharaa that they are ...

The dawn strike came hours after senior Druze clerics and armed factions reaffirmed their loyalty to Damascus and rejected any call for secession. They also urged the authorities to appoint local ...

A partly burnt building after clashes in Sahnaya near Damascus — OMAR HAJ KADOUR Israel's military said Friday it launched air strikes near the presidential palace in Damascus after the country's ...

The trip comes after local community leader Bakhour Chamntoub said unknown assailants broke into and desecrated the tomb of a 17th-century rabbi in Damascus last week. Visiting Rabbi Henry Hamra ...

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa met Friday with Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt in Damascus amid tensions and Israel's repeated attacks in Syria under the pretext of protecting the Druze ...

In a deal reached with representatives from the mainly Druze and Christian suburb of Jaramana, authorities also promised measures to "put an end to incitement to sectarian and regional division ...

The statement stressed that “This is a clear message to the Syrian regime: we will not allow a movement of forces to the south from Damascus or any threat to the Druze community.” At least 73 ...

Israel carried out strikes near Damascus on Wednesday and has also sent troops into the demilitarised buffer zone that used to separate Israeli and Syrian forces on the Golan Heights.