A string of powerful blasts from the direction of a military airport in Damascus lit up the skies and shook the capital city in the early morning hours on Suay, residents and state TV reported. The explosions were seen and heard coming from the direction of the Mezzeh airport, southwest...

A U.S. delegation including security and intelligence officials visited Damascus in June and met Syria’s security chief, an official in the regional alliance backing Bashar al-Assad said on Tuesday. Earlier on Tuesday the pro-Hezbollah Lebanese newspaper al-Akhbar reported that the...

Sirens wailed while workers piled sandbags in front of hotels and police blared warnings to tourists to leave the world-famous Waikiki Beach as Hurricane Lane barreled north after dumping nearly 2 feet of rain on Hawaii's mostly rural Big Island. Emergency crews rescued five California...

Bashar Assad attended a mosque in the country's west on Friday for prayers marking the end of Ramadan, in a rare appearance outside Damascus, images on his social media showed. "President Assad performs the Eid al-Fitr prayer at the Sayyida Khadija mosque in the city of Tartus," a...