The Latest Breaking News from Syria

We think of ancient civilisations as operating very differently from the way our economy works today. Yet the Bronze Age Assyrians living in Mesopotamia, around 4,000 to 3,000 years ago, began the basis of modern capitalism, in a region spanning most of modern-day Iraq, eastern Syria and southeastern Turkey. The…

The killing of a Bedouin couple in Syria’s Homs province has triggered renewed sectarian tensions

As party’s rise fuels fears over future visa rules, people share how the lives they have built are in jeopardy

State media in Syria have reported that rockets fired at a home in Damascus have wounded one person and caused damage

Violent clashes erupted in Suwayda between the Druze National Guard and Syrian government forces, involving heavy weapons and drones, in the latest major escalation of fighting between the two sides.

A new round of clashes between Druze armed groups and government forces in Sweida, southern Syria, has subsided

Syria’s foreign minister has reopened the country’s embassy in London after more than a decade

The long read: During the conflict, the Damascus suburb became a killing field. But some of Assad’s henchmen are still around – and even working with the new government

A few years ago, you might have balked if someone told you that the US president would be photographed in the White House shaking hands with a man who was a former member of al-Qaeda, an insurgent against US forces in Iraq, and had led one of the largest Syrian…