The reported fighting in the capital, Damascus, and the second city of Aleppo were the first such clashes there since the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime.

Despite his confinement to his hospital room, where he is being treated for double pneumonia, Pope Francis delivered two ...

The boots on the ground efforts are through a partnership with Trails to Recovery, a local nonprofit organization that formed ...

Thousands of Jews left Syria in 1992, when they were allowed to emigrate. The visit by a small delegation of U.S.-based ...

In the background is the destroyed Damascus suburb of Jobar. Still, said Lopatin, "This is a miracle to be able to be here, and hopefully bigger crowds can come. Now we have something to pray for.