On a spring morning three years ago, a new recruit to a loyalist Syrian militia was handed a laptop belonging to one of Bashar al-Assad’s most feared security wings. He opened the screen and curiously clicked on a video file, a brave move given the consequences if anyone had caught him prying....

The U.N. special envoy for Syria announced Tuesday that he has sent invitations to the Syrian government and the opposition for an eighth round of talks starting in late May, aimed at revising the constitution of the conflict-torn country. Geir Pedersen told the U.N. Security Council that...

An Israeli missile attack on suburbs of the Syrian capital Damascus killed four soldiers and wounded three others, the Defense Ministry said Wednesday. The ministry said earlier in the day that the missiles were fired from northern Israel shortly after midnight and that most of them were...

The Syrian Education Ministry acknowledged the spread of lice in schools in Damascus and its countryside, but denied that it was related to poor hygiene. The director of School Health in Damascus, Hatoon Al-Tawashi, claimed that the spread of lice in schools is not new and there are...