The reported fighting in the capital, Damascus, and the second city of Aleppo marked the first such clashes there since the fall of the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

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Some were forced to crawl besides the bloodied corpses of their neighbours as they were battered by branches. Others were ...

Iran is a sovereign country that can formulate its stance on major foreign policy issues independently, Dmitry Peskov noted ...

When I interviewed Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Damascus on Feb. 27, neither one of us knew ...

Members of the small religious sect find themselves caught between two forces that many of them distrust: the new, ...

The recent killings of Alawite and Christian civilians by the new Syrian government have been condemned by the U.S., while the EU offered a different response.

The killings occurred in the heartland of Syria’s Alawite minority, escalating after a nascent insurgency formed against the ...

Alex Ovechkin scored his 886th career goal into an empty net Sunday to move nine back of breaking Wayne Gretzky’s NHL record.

The Trump administration has revoked a sanctions waiver that allowed Iraq to buy gas and electricity from Iran, US officials ...

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Syrian interim president Ahmed Sharaa yesterday called for peace after hundreds were killed in some of the deadliest violence ...