Israel's defence minister has for the first time acknowledged that Israel killed Hamas's political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in July.Israel Katz made the comments in a speech vowing...

Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus became synonymous with the suffering of the Syrian people during the country's civil war, which began in 2011.It was the de facto capital of...

Aamir PeerzadaIn Damascus, members of Assad's Alawite sect now fear reprisalsDriving into Mezzeh 86, a working-class neighbourhood in the west of Damascus, we are waved through a checkpoint manned...

Siin experienceSyria has a thriving electronic music scene and many now wonder what comes next In the midst of the scramble for a new Syria, the country's musicians are...

BBC/Matthew GoddardThe BBC was granted rare access to the largest prison for IS detainees - Al Sina - which holds some 5,000 menAs the new Syria struggles to take...

Israel has said its fighter jets conducted a series of attacks against military targets in Yemen belonging to the Iran-backed Houthi movement.An Israeli military spokesman said the targets included...

ReutersHayat Tahrir al-Sham brought some semblance of stability to Idlib in 2017 after years of civil warThe road to Idlib, a remote corner in north-west Syria, still has the...

After months of deadlock, there are new signs that Israel and Hamas could be moving closer to a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal.A senior Palestinian official involved in...

Israel's government has approved a plan to encourage the expansion of settlements in the occupied Golan Heights.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the move was necessary because a "new front"...

The US has made "direct contact" with the HTS rebels who now control Syria after toppling the Assad regime, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said.It is the first...

Syrians made peace signs, waved flags and danced at a rally in central Aleppo to celebrate the end of the Assad regime, which was witnessed by the BBC's Middle...

A former Syrian government official has been charged with torture in the United States, authorities said on Thursday.Samir Ousman Alsheikh, who oversaw the Damascus Central Prison from 2005 and...