Syria has launched new currency notes replacing Assad-era imagery and dropping two zeros to ease everyday transactions.

Central bank will cut two zeros from Syrian pound and replace images of ousted dictator with olives, roses and mulberries ...

Many welcome absence of political figures on new banknotes, while others say they don't do justice to country's rich history ...

Syria unveiled its new currency bills, just over a year after a lightning insurgency ousted former president Bashar al-Assad and ended his family's decades-long rule of the country.

The grave in Dhumair desert, east of Damascus, was created to hide the bodies of thousands of victims. Read more at ...

Syria’s government and its allies have welcomed the lifting of sanctions imposed by the U.S. Congress in 2019 to punish ...

At least three people were killed and dozens were injured in clashes Sunday between Alawites and protesters in western Syria, ...

Ms. al-Assad’s cousin and Maher’s daughter, Sham al-Assad, also appeared to celebrate her 22nd birthday with an extravaganza, ...

HOMS, Syria (AP) — A year ago, Mohammad Marwan found himself stumbling, barefoot and dazed, out of Syria’s notorious Saydnaya prison on the outskirts of Damascus as rebel forces pushing toward the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump hosted Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa at the White House on Monday, welcoming the once-pariah state into a U.S.-led global coalition to fight the Islamic ...

Images shared by Syria's state-run news agency showed blood on carpets, holes in the walls, shattered windows and fire damage ...