New Delhi: The modern-day Syria with its capital in Damascus is considered as an Arab Islamic country where the majority of population comprises Sunni Muslims, about 74 per cent followed by Shia ...

Fully restoring Syria's war-damaged Krak des Chevaliers fortress, one of the world's most famous Crusader castles, may finally be within reach if the new authorities allocate the necessary resources, ...

With the Middle East in turmoil, could Israel now step into the breach?

The tragedy of the modern Middle East is that the Ottoman Empire, while it lasted, solved a problem that would bedevil the ...

The maps below provide a day-by-day overview of territorial control. Before November 27, Syrian opposition forces were mostly confined to their stronghold in the northwestern governorate of Idlib ...

A man burns a picture of Bashar al-Assad close to Syria's border with Lebanon. Rebels launched a shock offensive across Syria in late November, ousting al-Assad and ending more than half a century ...

Syrian citizens celebrate during the second ... still live in camps after one of the biggest displacements of the modern day. Many refugees won't have physical homes left in Syria.

In the early hours of December 8, groups opposing the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), captured the capital, Damascus, after an 11-day surprise ...

The Syrian leader fled Damascus for Moscow on Sunday ... caused one of the biggest refugee crises of modern times and left cities bombed to rubble, countryside depopulated and the economy hollowed ...