The Umayyads hastily built desert ... Asia) and the South Pacific. They redoubled their efforts in the 1870s after the disastrous Franco-Prussian War, and the French Empire reached a peak between the ...

<p class="para editable block" id="berglee_1.0-ch08_s00_p01">The realm of North Africa and Southwest Asia is large and expansive in terms of physical area, but its ...

This more detailed road map for Syria's future followed a day after al-Sharaa's first speech at the "Conference for Announcing the Victory of the Syrian Revolution." After he was officially ...

Syria’s status as a classic Middle East tourist definition was shredded by civil war. Visitors are now beginning to return, ...

By Erika Solomon Ben Hubbard and Lara Jakes President Trump’s funding freeze has thrown into confusion the future of a Syrian desert camp holding thousands of Islamic State members and their ...

A delegation from the global chemical weapons watchdog arrived in Damascus on Saturday to meet with Syria’s new leaders for the first time since the fall of former President Bashar al-Assad.

By Christina Goldbaum Reporting from Damascus, Syria The newly appointed president of Syria, Ahmed al-Shara, pledged in a speech on Thursday to create an inclusive transitional government that ...

DUBAI — 14 women and one man were killed and 15 other women injured on Monday (Feb 3), in a car bomb explosion on a main road on the outskirts of the northern Syrian city of Manbij, Syria's ...

ANKARA (AP) — Syria’s interim president was in the Turkish capital on Tuesday for talks expected to focus on Syria’s economic recovery as well as the presence of Kurdish-led forces in the ...

Despite protest over Syria's more "Islamic" curriculum changes, there are parallel priorities, observers say. After 14 years of war, millions of children remain out of school, and schools need to ...

Syria’s interim president made his first trip abroad on Sunday, travelling to Saudi Arabia in a move likely trying to signal Damascus’ shift away from Iran as its main regional ally. Ahmad al ...

Islamic State, whose remnants still roam somewhere in the Syrian desert, is nowhere to be seen, at least for now. A trickle of Syrian visitors has resumed. For most seeing Palmyra again ...