Baathist leaders struggled to unify Syria which, to this day, is a patchwork of ideologies, religions and ethnicities (see map 4). In 1970 the defence minister, Hafez al-Assad, took over the party ...

A contractor in Syria discovered an ancient underground Byzantine tomb complex believed to be 1,500 years old below a destroyed home. The grave site was found last month in the town of Maarat al ...

Map of Syria showing areas controlled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham rebels, Kurds and Syrian Democratic Forces, the Syrian government and the National Army.

QAMISHLI, Syria — The double earthquake that shattered thousands of lives across northwestern Syria this month was not the first natural disaster to strike the country this year.. In the northeast, ...

The United Nations estimated some 307,000 civilian dead in Syria by the end of 2022, with 12 million people -- more than half of the country's 2011 population of around 22 million -- forced from ...

The National Museum of Denmark recently announced the discovery of 4,500-year-old baby rattles from Syria. John Fhær Engedal Nissen, the National Museum of Denmark.