DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The middle-aged salesman sat glumly among an array of shorts, khaki leisure suits bedecked with gold belts and dresses with plunging necklines in the ancient Damascus bazaar — luxuries few can afford in today's Syria. He, like many traders, lost most of...

At least 30 Syrian regime soldiers were killed Monday in a major joint operation by opposition forces, which included the Al-Qaeda linked Nusra Front in Idlib, activists said. The Syrian Revolution General Commission (SRGC) said in a statement that the Free Syrian...

(Reuters) - When Sunni rebels rose up against Syria's Bashar al-Assad in 2011, Turkey reclassified its protégé as a pariah, expecting him to lose power within months and join the autocrats of Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen on the scrap heap of the "Arab Spring". Assad, in...

(Reuters) - A British surgeon who died in a Syrian prison last year days before his planned release was unlawfully killed, a London jury investigating the case ruled on Monday. Abbas Khan, a 32-year-old orthopedic surgeon from London, was detained in Syria almost two years...