Damascus — A CBS News team drove through a Syrian military airbase on the outskirts of capital city Damascus Monday, and the devastation caused by Israeli air strikes was abundantly clear.

A U.N. envoy on Sunday called for a quick end to Western sanctions against Syria as the country's new leaders and regional and global powers begin to chart a path forward following the fall of ...

The Syrian government has been toppled, and its leader sent into exile, a seismic shift poised to reshape the balance of power in the Middle East. Rebels seized the capital Damascus over the ...

New Delhi: The modern-day Syria with its capital in Damascus is considered as an Arab Islamic country where the majority of population comprises Sunni Muslims, about 74 per cent followed by Shia ...

CAIRO/DUBAI, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Syria's newly appointed foreign minister, Asaad Hassan al-Shibani, told Iran on Tuesday not to spread chaos in Syria but to respect the Syrian people's will and the ...

Syria's rebel factions will be "disbanded" and trained to join the "ranks of the defence ministry" said the leader of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group, which led rebel fighters to Damascus and ...

Syria's economy to open to world after decades under corrupt state control, Damascus Chambers of Commerce chief says Business leaders optimistic though cautious about new government's economic ...

chair of urban warfare studies at the Modern War Institute (MWI) at West Point; served for 25 years as an infantry soldier and two tours in Iraq In the shadow of the Syrian civil war, the drug ...

Few saw it coming. The sudden and dramatic fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria came on Sunday after over a decade of brutal conflict. “It took 12 days for the Syrian regime to collapse ...

The statement attributed to the toppled leader was posted to Telegram. LONDON -- Former Syrian President Bashar Assad on Monday made his first official statement since being toppled by a rebel ...