Syrian Transitional President Ahmed al Shara and his political allies are building a new Syrian army as part of their effort to unite Syria under their Damascus-based government. The establishment of ...

The head of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement said Friday that the offensive on the city of Aleppo was the “greatest battle” in Syria, pledging to dispatch more fighters to support Syrian regime forces. In ...

Syria’s Kurds battled to hold off a Turkish invasion on Thursday after air strikes and shelling launched a long-threatened operation that could reshape the country and trigger a humanitarian crisis.

Since the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024, global and regional actors have pledged billions of dollars for Syria’s reconstruction in rapid succession. However, a profound gulf remains ...

Syria's state-run SANA news agency reported that two civilians were killed and 15 were wounded by shelling, and that dozens of families fled two neighborhoods of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, ...

The railway from Beirut to Damascus was conceived in the 19th century when the two capitals were not yet divided by national borders. The route was abandoned in the 1970s owing to Lebanon’s civil war.