The Syrian conflict began as part of the Arab Spring, aimed at overthrowing Bashar al-Assad and achieving reform. Over a ...

Two Republican congressmen were expected to meet the country’s new leaders and to visit areas destroyed during the long civil ...

The government did ... began in March 2011. Kabawat was named minister of minister of social affairs and labor. Another minister is Raed Saleh, who for years headed the Syrian Civil Defense ...

In southern Syria, where the country's revolution began, residents have traded the violence of civil war for another threat: Israeli airstrikes. Israel says it wants a disarmed buffer zone there.

Syria's longtime dictator is gone. A nearly 14-year civil ... the start of transitional justice in Syria, and the job is enormous," says Stephen Rapp, former U.S. ambassador-at-large for war ...

During Syria's civil war, various extremist groups took control of huge swaths of the country. A small cluster of villages in the south, including Koayiah, were even occupied by ISIS from 2015 to ...