Thousands crammed into the marble esplanade of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus for the first Friday prayers since the ouster ...

Exuberant Syrians observed the first Friday prayers since the ouster of President Bashar Assad, gathering in the capital’s historic main mosque, its largest square and around the country to celebrate ...

Travis Timmerman called his release a “blessing” when he spoke to The Associated Press from a hotel room in Damascus, where he arrived late Thursday.

Israeli leaders are broadcasting optimism about the fall of Assad, a brutal dictator and key Iranian ally, while girding ...

The goal, said Avi Dichter, an Israeli minister, “is to establish facts on the ground” as Islamist rebels seek to cement ...

Basim Faiz Mawat stood in the Damascus cell that his fellow prisoners used to call the "death dormitory", struggling to ...

The fall of the dictator is good news for Syrians, for their neighbors and for the U.S. But that doesn't necessarily mean the ...

Defence Minister Israel Katz ordered Israeli forces that moved into the Syrian side of Mount Herman on the Golan Heights to ...

The rapid demise of the brutal Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria has taken every geopolitical analyst and self-proclaimed ...

Top U.S. officials were in the Middle East on Thursday, pushing for stability in Syria and an end to Israel’s 14-month war in ...