An anchor reads the Sunday news ... the happiest country in the world,” one man told CNN on the road leading to Damascus on Sunday. In a speech from the Umayyad Mosque on Sunday, Abu Mohammad ...

June 10, 2000 - President Hafez Assad dies of a heart attack after 29 years in office. July 10, 2000 - Assad is elected unopposed as president of Syria. January 2006 - Assad and Iranian President ...

Syria’s state-run news agency says the country’s foreign minister has held a rare meeting with an Israeli delegation in Paris ...

A spiritual leader of Syria’s Druze community is calling for an international investigation into clashes in southern Syria last month. The violence in Sweida province involved Druze fighters and ...