DAMASCUS (Reuters) -The United States encouraged its Syrian Kurdish allies to reach Monday's landmark deal with the Islamist-led government in Damascus, six sources said, an agreement that could ...

US encouraged Syrian Kurdish-Damascus deal, sources say Deal could help prevent conflict at time of uncertainty over U.S. forces' deployment Agreement aims to merge SDF forces with Syrian state ...

Israel on Thursday launched an airstrike on a building in Damascus, according to Syrian state media. It is understood that the attack targeted an area known to house Palestinian leaders ...

When Economist correspondent Sarah Birke left Damascus in 2011 she wasn’t sure she’d ever return, or what she’d find if she did. Then, in December, Syrian rebels unexpectedly captured the ...

The Israeli military has conducted air raids targeting what it described as military bases and command centres in southern Syria and outside the capital, Damascus. Israeli warplanes hit the town ...

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 ...

In northeast Syria, revelers took to the streets after the announcement of a breakthrough deal between the central government in Damascus and local Kurdish-led authorities QAMISHLI, Syria -- In ...

Damascus cultural life resumes with concerts, exhibition We are open to all forms of art, says ruling official Artists were worried about freedoms under Islamist rule New rulers trying to avoid ...

Israel carried out an air strike on the Syrian capital Damascus on Thursday, as its defence minister threatened Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa. “Wherever ...

Speaking to Rudaw’s Dilkhwaz Mohammed on Wednesday, Rabbi Yousef Hamra said he had returned to Damascus after 33 years of being forced to leave. “I am the first Jew to return to Syria.

Israeli strikes struck the town of Kisweh approximately 20 kilometres (12 miles) south of Damascus, a Syrian security source and Syria TV said. The security source said a military site was ...

For Henry Hamra, who fled Damascus as a teenager with his family in the 1990s, the 30 years since have been shadowed by worry for what they left behind. “I was just on the lookout the whole time.