Thousands of people in Kurdish-controlled northeastern Syria rallied Wednesday in support of their autonomous administration and called for decentralisation as negotiations with Damascus over the region鈥檚 future stall...
Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, has moved three notches down in the Global Liveability Index of The Economist Intelligence Unit and now ranks the 3rd worst liveable city, next to war-ravaged Syria鈥檚 Damascus and Libya鈥檚 Tripoli.
Sectarian clashes between forces linked to Syria鈥檚 new authorities and Druze fighters spread overnight near Damascus, leaving 13 people dead, state media and a monitor said on Wednesday...
International flights resumed at Syria鈥檚 main airport in Damascus on Tuesday for the first time since Islamist-led forces toppled president Bashar al-Assad last month...
Qatar reopened its embassy in Damascus on Saturday, 13 years after it was closed early in Syria鈥檚 civil conflict, as foreign governments seek to establish ties with the country鈥檚 new rulers....
I DO not know anyone who was not shocked by the lightning speed with which Damascus fell to expensively armed jihadist militias last weekend...
The rebels who ousted president Bashar al-Assad and are now in power in Syria appointed a transitional head of government on Tuesday to run the country until March聽 1, a statement said...
THE pendulum of zealotry almost always ushers in intellectual subterfuge in its wake. The lightning, if not spontaneous, takeover of Damascus by mediaeval militias is being predictably applauded by Western journalists as an overthrow of a 50-year-old family dictatorship...
A defence ministry research centre in northern Damascus was destroyed and about 10 navy ships were damaged in coastal Latakia in overnight strikes attributed to Israel by a Syria war monitor.