At the bottom of Nisrine Ezzedine's garden, cement blocks mark the graves of her husband, son and nephew, all killed by ...

In a centuries-old monastery on a rocky hill north of Damascus, friends of missing Italian priest Paolo Dall'Oglio carry on ...

Assad’s regime in Syria was overthrown, an Iranian magazine revealed details of the first meeting between former Iranian ...

After Islamist-led rebels ousted longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad on December 8, the new authorities sought to reassure minorities in multi-ethnic multi-confessional Syria that they will be protected.

But Alawites, from a branch of Shiite Islam, have an acute fear of reprisals because of their connection to the Assad clan, which recruited from and favoured its own religious community for ...

Armed factions in Syria are reacting to a recent decision by the new leadership in Damascus to dissolve all armed groups.

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

Before joining the military and building an Alawite caste around himself, Hafez al-Assad was a fervent supporter of the ...

The specter of an uncontrolled jihadist resurgence is just one of the potential challenges facing Syria as the new government ...