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

The fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad's government has aggravated the already tense relations between Turkey and Israel, ...

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

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

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

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

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

Once empowered by the regime, many Alawites now face reprisals from rebel factions and displaced Sunni populations who ...

The Druze were exempted from conscription into the Syrian army and instead set up local armed factions made of workers and ...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights says 'serious violations' committed by Assad loyalists and government-linked forces ...

A Syrian fact-finding committee investigating sectarian killings during clashes by rival groups during an insurgency by ...

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