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

United Nations-backed human rights experts allege Israel has caused "disproportionate violence against women and children" during the war against Hamas in Gaza, ...

The United Nations Security Council has agreed to a statement condemning widespread violence in Syria's coastal region and ...

A few days ago, 48-year-old Johnny S., a Greek Orthodox Christian from Syria, found the courage to leave his home in Latakia, ...

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

Democracy and peace are not guaranteed when a dictator falls — sometimes, a country’s fate turns uglier and messier.