The discussions in Ankara will include establishing Turkish airbases in central Syria and training for Syria's new army.

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

There is now a major shift to a competitive free-market economy, Syria’s new economy minister said. Read more at straitstimes ...

Most Gaza residents are the descendants of Palestinian refugees driven to the enclave in a 1948 war. They harbor a deep fear ...

DAMASCUS - Syria's new Islamist leaders are undertaking ... "If this decision goes through, it will increase unemployment across society, which is something we cannot afford," he said.

A week later, the Ministry of Information sent an online form for journalists, asking them to detail work plans before they ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital, an essential link between Europe and the Arabian Peninsula during the Ottoman Empire and then a national ...

NICOLE GRAJEWSKI is a Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an Associate with the Project on Managing the Atom at the Harvard Kennedy School. She ...

MOSCOW, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday it had held "frank" discussions with Syria ... Damascus also wanted Russia, which backed Assad in the country's civil war, to rebuild trust ...

That was why it felt like a fantasy to suddenly be driving down it myself on a Wednesday this past December, heading from northern Syria directly to Damascus ... with drove through the city ...