A French delegation arrived Tuesday at the country’s embassy in Damascus, an AFP correspondent said, the first visit of diplomats from France since Bashar al-Assad’s ouster by the opposition. An AFP video journalist saw the delegation arrive outside the mission which has been shuttered...

Iran’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday that its embassy in Syria would reopen once the “necessary conditions” are met, after the diplomatic mission was vandalized following the ouster of Tehran ally Bashar al-Assad. “The reopening of the embassy in Damascus requires preparations,...

Families in Syria are gathering in the capital Damascus to post photos of missing loved ones, hoping to find answers about those who disappeared during the rule of Bashar Assad. The walls of Marjeh Square’s central monument are covered with hundreds of photos, each listing names and...

Syria’s ousted leader Bashar Assad claimed on Monday that he took refuge at a Russian base during the dramatic fall of the decades-long Baath regime earlier this month. Assad, who ruled Syria for nearly 25 years, fled to Russia on Dec. 8 after anti-regime groups seized control of the...