Family and friends of the Missouri man who was imprisoned in Syria after he said he crossed into the country on a "pilgrimage ...

Travis Timmerman, 29, from Urbana, was found this week wandering barefoot in a suburb south of Syria's capital.

(CNN) — “This is either gonna be wildly successful or a complete disaster,” Austin Tice wrote in May 2012, on the eve of a dangerous journey to bear witness to history. “Here goes nothing.” Tice, a ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of a U.N. body established to determine what happened to potentially hundreds of thousands of people missing in Syria said Wednesday it was essential to find a way to ...

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Missing American Journalist Reported Alive, Held by Syrian Government This is one of those times when having an embassy in Damascus would be helpful: Americans are working with Czech diplomats to ...

In the latest story of the Syrian government cracking down on artists, independent filmmaker Orwa Nyrabia has gone missing, presumably detained by Syrian authorities. Nyrabia, 35, was supposed to fly ...

A group of Syrian-American Jews has registered a nongovernmental organization in Syria to restore Jewish heritage ...

There's very little information yet available on the Japanese journalist killed in the Syrian city of Aleppo, but it looks like we're seeing another situation similar to the death of American reporter ...