Insurgents gained control after only a day of fighting, leaving President Bashar al-Assad's 24-year rule dangling by a thread ...

Insurgents gained control after only a day of fighting, leaving President Bashar al-Assad's 24-year rule dangling by a thread ...

That was a reminder that the country remains divided between several different groups (see map ... Many Syrian Christians are cautiously optimistic. Mr Assad’s Alawite sect is more worried.

Blinken said the future government of Syria should be “credible, inclusive and non-sectarian ... on Russia to pressure Assad into providing maps of secret jails and lists of detainees ...

Amid the scenes of jubilation, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with allies around the region and called for an ...

Ahead of the talks, the foreign ministers of Iran, Iraq and Syria met in Baghdad, where Syria's Bassam al-Sabbagh accused the government's enemies of seeking to "redraw the political map".

Ireland itself has a history that raises questions about its moral credibility: from the sectarian violence of The Troubles ...

Map: The Economist The early signs ... they have toned down their sectarian triumphalism and have promised to protect Syria’s many minorities. But things in Syria have a habit of getting ...

The Assad family, which has run Syria since a 1970 coup, is Alawite, a minority sect that’s an offshoot ... on a gun purchase in Connecticut. See a map of where the shooter was.