Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will not allow Syria’s new army or the insurgent group that led the ouster of former President Bashar Assad to “enter the area south of Damascus” as his government made clear Israeli forces would stay in parts of southern Syria for an indefinite period.

Security forces in Syria said on Monday they arrested three people involved in the execution of hundreds of civilians by government forces in Damascus in 2013, two years after the country’s 13-year civil war began.

As Syrian Arab refugees in the Kurdish city of Afrin return to their homes in Damascus and elsewhere, displaced Afrinis are afraid to return to their city. According to official statistics from the Autonomous Administration in North and East Syria,

For the first time in three decades, Rabbi Joseph Hamra and his son Henry read from a Torah scroll in a synagogue in the heart of Syria's capital Damascus, carefully passing their thumbs over the handwritten text as if still in awe they were back home.

Fouad Jakiche Fouad Jakiche was born on April 23, 1932, in Damascus, Syria, and transitioned to Heaven peacefully in , New Mexico on Sunday, February 9, 2025. Fouad was a loving husband, father, brother,

Creating an inclusive government in Syria in coming weeks will help determine whether Western sanctions are lifted as the country rebuilds after the ouster of former President Bashar Assad, the U.N. special envoy to Syria said Thursday.

Syria's central bank said a batch of Syrian currency had arrived at Damascus airport from Russia, where banknotes were printed under the rule of toppled President Bashar al-Assad, Syria's state news agency SANA reported on Friday.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday urged Syria's new leaders to ensure "governance that is representative and respectful of all" at a Paris conference on the transition in the war-torn country after Bashar al-Assad's fall.

Damascus] Syrians across multiple provinces continue to hold preparatory sessions for the upcoming Syrian National Dialogue Conference, a landmark event expected to shape the country’s future. In recent weeks,

Rabbi Yusuf Hamra, right, and his son Henry lookout an old scripture at the Efranj synagogue in the old city of Damascus Feb. 18, 2025. The Syrian-American Jewish family returned

Kurdish-led authorities in northeast Syria have begun providing oil from local fields they manage to the central government in Damascus, Syrian oil ministry spokesman Ahmed Suleiman told Reuters on Saturday.