Celebratory gunfire sounded along with shouts of, “Syria is ours and not the Assad family’s”. Agence France-Presse correspondents saw dozens of men, women and children wandering through ...

Shara’s unlikely path from membership in Al Qaeda to head of state has raised questions about how he intends to govern Syria.

Five men went on trial in France on Monday charged with holding four French journalists hostage for the Islamic State ...