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

The violence in Alawite areas is one sign of Syria’s fragmentation. In the north, Kurdish groups have their own enclaves and ...

“Oh, of course,” I chuntered “on the day the bodies of two baby hostages, strangled to death by thugs with their bare hands, ...

The peril and promise of Syria under interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa — the former leader of an Islamist insurgent group — were on dramatic display over the past week. After days of deadly sectarian ...