Flag carrier Turkish Airlines on Thursday landed its first Istanbul-Damascus flight since 2012, ending a 13-year hiatus that was due to Syria's civil war. Many Syrians voiced joy at returning to their homeland after years of exile. Some were seen carrying flags from December’s Syrian...

Syria’s top diplomat said Wednesday that lifting economic sanctions imposed during the rule of ousted president Bashar al-Assad was “key” to restoring stability in the war-torn country. For weeks, Syria’s new authorities have been lobbying Western powers to scrap restrictions that...

Doctors Without Borders said that more than 70 percent of the Syrian population needs "urgent" humanitarian aid, and confirmed its efforts to expand its activities in areas that were "impossible" to reach during the era of the ousted regime of President Bashar al-Assad. In an interview with...

Nearly 200,000 Syrian refugees have returned home since the fall of Bashar Al Assad in early December, the UN refugee chief Filippo Grandi said ahead of a visit to the region. Between December 8 and January 16, some 195,200 Syrians returned home, according to figures published by Grandi on...