Unrest is brewing in Syria’s coastal plains, home to the Assad family’s Alawite sect. Earlier this week, a group of regime loyalists staged an ambush on the now-governing rebel forces, killing 14.

The Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats after World War I, and the recent collapse ...

The rebels capturing Damascus marked a turning point for Syria, which had been shattered by more than 13 years of war which ...

By leveraging Turkey military power economic influence and ideological appeal Erdogan seeks to position Ankara as the lynchpin of a new regional order The fall of Bashar al-Assad regime not only marks ...

The Syrian transitional government’s Ministry of Interior continued a security operation pursuing “remnants of the former ...

Syria's new security forces checked IDs and searched cars in the central city of Homs on Thursday, a day after protests by ...

Syria's new authorities have arrested a military justice official who under ousted president Bashar al-Assad issued death ...

Syria's new authorities launched an operation in a stronghold of ousted president Bashar al-Assad on Thursday, with a war monitor saying three gunmen affiliated with the former government were killed.

Sectarian violence has erupted in bursts since Mr Assad’s ouster but nothing close to the level feared after nearly 14 years of civil war that killed an estimated half-million people. The war ...

As the fighters who ousted Bashar al-Assad set out to assert control over the country, they pursued former government forces ...

Angry protests broke out Wednesday in the heartland of deposed Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority, a war monitor and witnesses said, after a video circulated showing an attack on a shrine ...