Hundreds of people were killed in Syria over four days after violent clashes between the army and loyalists of the deposed ...

Recent violence in Syria has sparked fears of further instability as leaders call for lifting sanctions to ease economic woes ...

Ever since its revolution in 1979, Iran has cultivated a network of proxies and friends throughout the Middle East. For years ...

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

Recent clashes between anti-government groups and security forces in Syria have put the Alawite community in the spotlight.

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

You can blame the European colonial powers for the last major redrawing of the borders in the region in 1918-20, after the collapse of the Ottoman empire. The new borders paid little heed to the ...

Five days of sectarian violence sparks concerns that fighting could spread after three months of relative peace in the ...

Syria’s central government has reached a deal with the Kurdish-led authority that controls the country’s northeast, including ...

They kidnapped; they killed; they humiliated; they kicked people out of jobs,” explained an Alawite writer living in coastal ...

The violence has pitted the Islamist-led government's security forces against fighters from Assad's Alawite minority ...

A war monitoring group said on Saturday that the violence was one of the deadliest incidents since Syria's conflict began 14 ...