TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Syria’s chief diplomat is on a three-day official visit to Tunisia meant to restore diplomatic relations that have been cut off since 2012 during the civil war that followed President Bashar Assad’s brutal crackdown on mass protests against his rule. Syrian...

Saudi Arabia's top diplomat is expected to arrive in the Syrian capital on Tuesday, the first official visit by an official from the kingdom in more than a decade, the Syrian government said. The visit by Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan to Damascus follows that of his Syrian...

The inquiry aims to hold to account Syrian officials considered key architects of a brutal system of detention and torture that has flourished under President Bashar al-Assad. For months, guards at a Syrian prison brutally tortured an American aid worker and threatened to kill her loved...

The trading price of the Syrian pound recorded a remarkable improvement for the US dollar in most Syrian cities, for the second day in a row, due to the increase in remittances sent from expatriates to their families inside Syria, ahead of the Eid Al-Fitr holiday. The "Damascus dollar" had...