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

A spate of attacks involving loyalists to former ruler President Bashar al-Assad has spurred concerns of a return to ...

Mohammed, 15, learned about the dangers of unexploded ordnance at a UNICEF child-friendly space — knowledge he used to save ...

Abdulwahab Omira escaped Syria's war with his family as a teenager. He recently returned as a Stanford graduate student and a ...

War and sanctions have devastated Syria’s economy. According to the World Bank, the country’s GDP fell from $61.39 billion in ...

The new Syrian government has signed a deal with to integrate the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia into the ...

More than 1,000 people have been killed in fighting between forces of the new government and remnants of the ousted regime, ...

The attack Thursday near the port city of Latakia reopened the wounds of the country’s 13-year civil war and sparked the ...

In recent days, Syria suffered the worst violence since the toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad last December. Deadly ...

Gunmen and security forces linked to Syria's new Islamist rulers killed more than 340 people, the head of a war monitor said.