Syria’s national symphony orchestra performed last week at the Damascus opera house. As hosts Marco Werman and Carolyn Beeler explain, musicians and audiences alike expressed relief that the arts are ...

An Indonesian woman who felt duped into joining the Islamic State’s ”caliphate“ in Syria tells TIME of the challenges of ...

Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination to be President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence cleared a key Senate committee ...

Analysis: Unifying a fragmented landscape of armed factions into a cohesive national army is one of the most complex challenges facing Syria's new authorities.

A hmed al-Sharaa, Syria’s president, spoke to The Economist on January 31st in Damascus. The conversation has been translated ...

Maha Janoud spent years working in Syrian football before leaving the country. After the toppling of Bashar Assad, she is ...

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Syria's new Islamist leaders are undertaking a radical overhaul of the country's broken economy, ...

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Donald Trump called then-President Joe Biden’s foreign policy “terrible” and the “lowest point” in our country’s history. The same day, the outgoing president praised his foreign policy team’s ...

The 2012-13 season will go down as one of the most remarkable in RSL history, with Al Fateh coming from nowhere to clinch their first, and only RSL, title. It was Saudi Arabia’s ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Samir al-Baghdad grabbed his pickax and walked up a wobbly set of stairs made of cinderblocks and rubble. He is rebuilding his destroyed family house in the Qaboun ...

When Bashar al-Assad ruled Syria, merchants like Youssef Rajab kept much of their imported stock hidden for fear of arrest for breaking the law. But after an Islamist-led coalition toppled Assad ...