The new government has pledged to unify Syria after overthrowing the Assad dictatorship. One of its biggest challenges is ...

As an al-Qaida fighter in Iraq, he was detained by the American military. As the leader of a U.S.-designated terror group ...

A recent surge in violence against Syria’s Druze religious community has reportedly seen over 100 people killed since the ...

With more than 100 people killed this week in a region controlled by the Druse minority, Druse leaders signaled new ...

Five months after its liberation from the police state of Bashar al-Assad, Syria sometimes looks like a country in civil war.

The fighting and the Israeli attacks add to the difficulties faced by Syria’s new government – which only came to power after ...

Attacks on the Druze by Islamist gunmen backing the new Syrian government have pushed some in the community to welcome ...

An end to U.S. sanctions on Syria is expected to mark a new era for an economy devastated by 13 years of war, opening the way ...

One man accused of killing an Alawite during the sectarian violence in March tells the BBC that armed civilians were advised ...

Syria strongly condemned foreign intervention following a rare Israeli strike near Damascus on Wednesday amid deadly ...

Four days of clashes between pro-government gunmen and members of a minority sect in Syria have left nearly 100 people dead ...