Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani is travelling to Syria on Friday to encourage the transition in the country following the ouster of President Bashar Assad by Islamist insurgents

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani began his first official visit to post-Assad Syria on Friday with a tour of the landmark Umayyad mosque in Damascus."It's a great pleasure... to be here this morning to visit and pay homage to all Syrian believers,

Damascus International Airport resumed international operations on Tuesday, with respective flights to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and from Qatar. The first flight departed on Tuesday morning for Sharjah,

International flights in and out of Syria’s main airport in Damascus will resume next week after being halted since rebels overthrew the former regime last month.

"Our problem is not with Israel. We don't want to meddle in anything that will threaten Israel's security," Damascus Governor Maher Marwan tells NPR. Syria and Israel have never had diplomatic ties.

People set aside divisions and anxiety about the future to mark a once-in-a-lifetime moment of renewal.

Burns, strangulation, broken bones. The list of signs of torture is long and can be seen on some 27,000 photos showing dead Syrian civilians. The man who smuggled the photos out of the country calls himself "Caesar”.

Ad Policy Syrians celebrate the fall of Bashar al-Assad regime and the New Year’s Eve in the capital, Damascus, on December 31, 2024. (Ibrahim Hatib / Anadolu via )

A severely malnourished baby makes a full recovery, with vital assistance from a UNICEF-supported mobile health and nutrition team.

The foreign ministers of Germany and France said they wanted to forge a new relationship with Syria and urged a peaceful transition as they met its de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus on Friday on behalf of the European Union.