Yusra Mardini stepped on a plane back to Germany for the holidays overwhelmed by emotion. News had just filtered through from Syria of the overthrow of the country’s longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad.

Travis Timmerman, an American from Missouri who was imprisoned in Syria, told NBC News he had been on a pilgrimage to Damascus. Video led some to thing he was Austin Tice.

Timmerman said he had gone to Syria for Christian "spiritual purposes ... had been last seen in Budapest. The bulletin said the date of his last contact had been June 2, 2024, and that he was ...

Timmerman, 29, had not contacted his family for months after he went on a trip to Eastern Europe. His discovery came in the wake of the overthrow of the Assad regime.

An American who disappeared seven months ago into former Syrian President Bashar Assad’s notorious prison system says he was released by the “liberators” who arrived in Damascus a day after the longti

The, Turkey and Israel all responded to the fall of the Assad government in Damascus by launching bombing campaigns on Syria. Israel also

More details emerged Sunday about those killed when a man drove a car at speed through a Christmas market in Germany, while mourners continued to place flowers and other tributes at the site of the attack.

Authorities say the suspect does not fit the usual profile of perpetrators of extremist attacks. The man described himself as an ex-Muslim who was highly critical of Islam and in many posts on social media expressed support for the far-right anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.

The little boy was massacred along with four women in a horror attack when a suspect drove a car into a crowd enjoying a Christmas market.

urging the country concerned to immediately lift unilateral sanctions imposed on Syria. An international news agency dedicated to news about peace and nonviolence with offices in Athens, Barcelona, Berlin, Bogotá, Bordeaux, Brussels, Budapest, Buenos ...

The Islamic State spread from Iraq into Syria, and Syria’s Kurdish ethnic minority created an autonomous region. Some of the armed groups that gained territory during the civil war also fought ...

The number of US troops in Syria has regularly surged higher than the Pentagon has publicly disclosed since at least 2020, and in recent months increased to more than double the roughly 900 troops ...