Recent violence in Syria has sparked fears of further instability as leaders call for lifting sanctions to ease economic woes ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has said that the head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria was killed in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service ...

Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.

Faisal Al Kudsi has vivid memories of visiting the Presidential Palace in Damascus when his father, the banker and politician ...

The question asked by many Syrians from Alawite, Shiite, Druse, Christian and other minority communities has become: “Can [I] ...

Sharaa, seemed to waver between his jihadist past and his presidential present. After the first day of violence he made a ...

Syria’s interim president has signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule for five years ...

Assaults on the country's Alawite minority continue despite promises that Syria's new leaders will carve out a future that ...

Just like in 2011, thousands of Syrians, in this case Alawites, wade through the river that serves as a border with Lebanon to escape the persecution by the allied forces of the new government. The ...

The Haydar family huddled in their apartment while gunmen stalked their hometown of Baniyas, hunting for members of Syria’s ...

Outstanding issues between Damascus, the armed Druze groups, and the SDF can likely be resolved through protracted ...

Under Mr Assad Syria sank from middle-income status to abject poverty. Women saw branches off trees for heating. Children ...