The aim is to head off a return to civil conflict that could complicate efforts to curb radical Islamist groups.

The recent mass killings targeting Syria’s Alawite minority in the west of the country raise doubts about the new leader, ...

In the Al-Qusour district, residents are trying to go back to their lives after the deadly attacks carried out by various ...

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

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

The commander of a Kurdish-led force in Syria said the country's interim president must hold the perpetrators of communal ...

A series of violent clashes in Syria points to both the lingering Russian and Iranian presence in the country, as well as the ...

Christians and other religious minorities in Syria are sounding the alarm as more than 1,000 people have been killed since ...

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

After violence broke out between the current and past regimes in Syria, fearful residents have waded across a river to take ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has said that the head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria was ...