After decades of dictatorship and 13 years of civil war, can Syria put itself back together? Our journalists traveled the ...

Divine Liturgies were celebrated on Sunday, June 30, in Damascus, Syria — albeit with significantly lower attendance due to a prevailing atmosphere of fear and anxiety.

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Abdulrazak al-Jenan swept the dust off his solar panel on his apartment roof overlooking Damascus. Syria’s largest city was mostly pitch-black, the few speckles of ligh… ...

RAQQA, Syria — Mofida Majthou squatted, holding a detonator affixed to the end of a long wire. More than 1,600 feet away, winding past a cinder-block shack and across an expanse of sand and ...

WASHINGTON, United States — President Donald Trump on Monday formally dismantled US sanctions against Syria, hoping to reintegrate the war-battered country into the global economy as Israel eyes ...

Rival Syrian and Kurdish producers are scrambling for shrinking wheat harvests as the worst drought in decades follows a devastating war, pushing more than 16 million people toward food insecurity.

BEIRUT (AP) — The head of a U.N. investigative commission on Friday called commitments made by the new authorities in Syria to protect the rights of minorities “encouraging” but said ...

In the largely conservative country, few women wear swimsuits that reveal their bodies. Six months after Islamist-led forces toppled longtime Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian tourism ministry ...

Premieres Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Investigating the Assad regime's arrest, torture and execution of detainees during the Syrian war. Former prisoners, guards ...

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday to reverse decades-old American sanctions on Syria and “give these guys a chance,” senior administration officials said. The order ...

Syria has been designated a State Sponsor of Terrorism by the United States since December 1979. Additional sanctions and restrictions were added in May 2004 with the issuance of Executive Order 13338 ...

Syria’s new leaders have been struggling to rebuild the country’s decimated economy and infrastructure after nearly 14 years of civil war that has killed half a million people.