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When Syria's new leaders shut 60 Damascus bars, drinkers protested, and the government reversed itself. It's an example of ...

KOAYIAH, Syria (AP) — An Israeli strike Tuesday in southwestern Syria killed at least six people as Israeli troops occupying the area clashed with local residents, Syria’s Foreign Ministry and ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Sahar Diab had visited Damascus ... when a call to prayer signaled that those fasting can eat and drink. “We never saw such things here,” he said, adding that ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Sahar Diab had visited Damascus’ famed Umayyad ... dates while he was out when a call to prayer signaled that those fasting can eat and drink. “We never saw such things here,” ...

The fighters, nominally aligned with Syria’s new government, had descended on the region and were looking for Alawites – a religious minority to which Syria’s former leader Bashar al-Assad ...

More than three months after the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad, Germany reopened its embassy in Damascus on Thursday. The embassy, which was closed in 2012 amid the Syrian civil war ...

BEIRUT - Lebanon's Defense Minister Michel Menassa and his Syrian counterpart Murhaf Abu Qasra agreed on a ceasefire, the Lebanese and Syrian defence ministries said in statements on Monday, as ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Fighting along the Syrian-Lebanese border intensified on Monday as deadly clashes erupted between the Syrian military and Hezbollah-aligned forces. The escalation follows accusations from Syria ...

Syrian troops responded by shelling Lebanese border towns overnight, according to the Syrian defence ministry and the Lebanese army. Residents of the town of Al-Qasr, less than 1 kilometre (0.6 ...