(AP) – A timeline of some key events in the Syrian uprising: March 15, 2011 _ Activists call for a “Day of Rage” across Syria, inspired by other popular uprisings across the Arab world. In February, ...

BEIRUT (AP) – A list of some of the major bombings in Syria since the uprising against President Bashar Assad’s regime began in March 2011: _April 8: A car bomb explodes in a busy residential and ...

The capture of a convicted kidnapper is renewing scrutiny of how two Syrian defectors were abducted in Turkey and handed to ...

One of the defining characteristics of the Arab Spring is that the heavy protests typically staged after Friday prayers have names. In March, for example, Yemeni protesters countered President Ali ...

In 2011, as the Arab Spring took hold across the Middle East, the seeds of Syria's revolution were sown by students and young people in the city of Daraa. Special correspondent Simona Foltyn reports ...

Revisit FRONTLINE’s documentaries on the Syrian war's devastating human toll, the journeys of refugees, the foreign interventions and the long shadow of the conflict.

Pitched on the grounds of the historic Trinity Church in Manhattan, sandwiched between the parish building and cemetery, are two tents that house on their floors an arrangement of used matchsticks ...

Syrians wave revolutionary flags and chant slogans at a night protest against then-President Bashar Assad in a neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, April 2, 2012 (uncredited AP photo). The end of the ...

Already tense relations between the U.S. and Syria grew more strained on Thursday after Robert Ford, the U.S. ambassador to Syria, began a two-day visit to the central city of Hama, the seat of mass ...

DAMASCUS, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Syrian authorities have arrested a former senior security officer and cousin of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad seen by some as responsible for sparking the country's 2011 ...

The Syrian revolution started off as a bottom-up, working class uprising from the peripheries organised through local coordination committees. They set up local councils throughout the liberated areas ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Syrian authorities have arrested a former senior security officer and cousin of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad ...