Local currency, which has shown no sign of recovery despite fall of the Assad regime, will be new chief's priority ...

When US Deputy Special Envoy for the Middle East Morgan Ortagus was born on July 10, 1982, the scene was as follows: General Ariel Sharon’s tanks were surrounding Beirut from all sides and his jets ...

The icy winds of Moscow offer little warmth for exiled Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, whose sudden downfall on December 8 ...

Syria accused Israel on Thursday of mounting a deadly destabilisation campaign after a wave of strikes on military targets, ...

Pope John Paul II has become the first Pontiff to enter a mosque during his groundbreaking pilgrimage to Syria. The country's top Muslim clerics are escorting the Pope through Damascus' Omayyad Mosque ...

The longest-serving political prisoner under the regime is now revered as a hero. ‘I was always free here,’ he declares, ...