After more than a week of uncertainty amid violent clashes and Israeli strikes, Syria's interim president has signed a ...

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

After Syria’s longtime autocratic ruler was toppled late last year, the man who led rebel groups to victory immediately faced ...

The work of the Syria Strategy Project and the considerable policy recommendations found in this report present a realistic ...

"To be honest, the Alawites clearly ask for international protection," a former Syrian diplomat told Newsweek.

Members of the small religious sect find themselves caught between two forces that many of them distrust: the new, ...

A Syrian security source said the pace of fighting had slowed around Latakia, Jabla and Baniyas, while forces searched ...

Up to 1 million internally displaced people (IDPs) living in camps and displacement sites across north-west Syria intend to return to their areas of origin within the next year, 600,000 of them in the ...

The prayers Rabbi Hamra said last week were the first since the synagogue closed in the 1990s, after almost the entire Syrian Jewish population of more than 30,000 left. The Hamra family emigrated to ...

As Syrians begin to stitch their country back together after the fall of the Assad regime and 14 years of civil war, one city serves as a template for what Syria’s new Islamist rulers would like the ...

This offensive resulted in the near-total destruction of Syria's military infrastructure, including bases and equipment, significantly weakening the nation's defense capabilities. A heat map by the ...

Wary of separatism, Turkey has seen YPG's foothold in Syria as a national security threat. Turkey's Kurdish minority, amounting to 15-20% of its total population of around 85 million, mostly live ...