DAMASCUS — Naveen Mahmoud was out running errands when an alarmed neighbor called: The conservative Muslim rebels who ousted Syria's dictator late last year had arrived to shut down the trendy ...

Guinea's ex-dictator Moussa Dadis Camara, jailed for 20 years over a 2009 massacre, was pardoned for "health reasons" by the West African country's junta head, with a human rights body Saturday ...

Lebanese Defense Minister Michel Menassa was scheduled to visit the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Wednesday but the visit was canceled. Menassa and his Syrian counterpart, Murhaf Abu Qasra ...

Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa has a lot to prove to win over Western powers. If the first few weeks of his rule are anything to go by, he may be heading in the wrong direction.

To hammer home the message, three European envoys made clear in a March 11 meeting with Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani in Damascus that cracking down on the jihadi fighters was their top priority ...

Security forces in the Damascus countryside announced the arrest of Shadi Adel Mahfouz, describing him as one of the individuals involved in recent attacks on security forces in the coastal region.

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He said that Israel would not allow paramilitary groups or forces from the new Syrian army to move south of Damascus, and called for the “full demilitarization” of the Quneitra, Daraa and ...

From Mecca, he continued his travels through Baghdad, Konya, and Anatolia, before finally settling in Damascus in 1223 CE. The tomb and mausoleum of Ibn Arabi was constructed after the Ottoman ...

Detective Sergeant McVeagh continued: "The third incident occurred at around 9.35pm, when a white Mercedes and blue Volkswagen Golf pulled up to a residential property in Damascus Street.