Samir Ousman Sheikh allegedly ordered inmates to a wing of a Syrian prison where they were then tortured with a device known ...

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

The brutal Assad regime may have fallen but there is a very real risk of a full-on ISIS/Taliban-style caliphate taking over ...

What happened to relics of Syria’s Jewish history? The collapse of the Assad regime is spurring efforts to assess the damage.

A former Syrian military official who oversaw a prison where alleged human rights abuses took place has been charged with ...

Saydnaya prison north of the Syrian capital Damascus has become a notorious symbol of the inhumane abuses of the Assad clan, especially since the country's civil war erupted in 2011.

In an impoverished, war-ravaged country, the first prayers after the fall of a brutal regime drew jubilant crowds, even in ...

At the Umayyad Square in central Damascus, tens of thousands of people were having the party of their lifetime on Friday.

Thousands of Syrians celebrated in Umayyad Square, the largest in Damascus, after the first Muslim Friday prayers following ...

Travis Timmerman, a U.S. citizen found wandering barefoot in Damascus after being freed from a Syrian prison following the ...

Friday prayers carry significant symbolism as they were a rallying point during the early days of 2011 uprising-turned-civil war.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that Israeli troops would stay in the zone until a force on the Syrian side of the border could ensure security.