The Latest Breaking News from Damascus

Lebanon’s Mikati and Syria’s al-Sharaa discuss relations, including smuggling between countries and border challenges.

Intelligence officials in Syria’s new de facto government say they have thwarted a plan by the Islamic State group to set off a bomb at a Shiite shrine in the Damascus suburb of Sayyida Zeinab

Antonio Tajani says Italy wants to serve as a bridge between Damascus and the European Union.

Italian Foreign Minister plans Syria visit to support transition post-Assad's removal by HTS, calls for EU sanctions review.

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani met Syria's new ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus Friday, state media said, in the latest such visit from a European diplomat since the fall of Bashar al-Assad.

Thousands attend the concert in Damascus to mark the end of al-Assad family rule and almost 14 years of civil war.

Fighters in southern Syria who helped topple President Bashar al-Assad are reluctant to disarm and disband as ordered by the country's new rulers, their spokesman told AFP. An Islamist-led offensive ripped through Syria from the north and into Damascus on December 8, bringing to a sudden end five decades of…

Syria’s new leadership faces an economy devastated by war and sanctions, with inflation and a decimated currency.

Turkey threatened Tuesday to launch a military operation against Kurdish forces in Syria unless they accepted Ankara's conditions for a "bloodless" transition after the fall of strongman president Bashar al-Assad.

First direct flight from Doha in 13 years touches down amid hopes SyrianAir fleet can be restored after war

Israeli military raids in West Bank lead to deaths of 3 militants. First international commercial flight lands in Damascus post-Assad ousting.