The uncle of Syrian President Bashar Assad is to stand trial in France on charges of building up a big property empire in the country using funds from Syrian state coffers, legal sources said Wednesday. An investigating magistrate ordered Rifaat Assad to stand trial for organiZed money...

A mantle of gold smothers Aleppo’s ruins, hiding the rubble and filling the craters with wild flowers that for a moment seem to transform a landscape scarred by war, destruction and death. After an unusually wet winter, the warm days of spring have suddenly brought an abundance of color...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A political Security official was killed Tuesday by an improvised explosive device claimed by a new rebel group in Damascus. Saraya Qassioun has claimed the responsibility for killing Major. Abdulhamid Abdul Majeed in the western district of Qudsaya. ...

A community of Syrians who converted to Christianity from Islam is growing in Kobani, a town besieged by Islamic State for months, and where the tide turned against the militants four years ago. The converts say the experience of war and the onslaught of a group claiming to fight for...