Assad's Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shia Islam whose members make up one of Syria's biggest religious minorities. Alawites ...

"I believe there will be violent fighting, the end of which we do not know," a top Syrian Democratic Council official told ...

Syria's new rulers have appointed Murhaf Abu Qasra, a leading figure in the insurgency which toppled Bashar al-Assad, as ...

The toppling of Bashar Assad has raised tentative hopes that Syrians might live peacefully and as equals after a half century ...

Years of strife ruined the energy sector, battered the currency and strangled growth. The West must ease financial controls ...

Will he walk the walk and not just talk the talk? And if he doesn’t win in the elections, will he peacefully stand aside for ...

Losing Syrian military bases would hurt the Kremlin’s attempts to project power in the Middle East and Africa.

President-elect Donald Trump may be right that it is a “mess” in Syria now. That’s hardly surprising after the demise of a ...

U.S. officials announced they conducted an airstrike on Syrian soil that killed two ISIS members, including a top official.

The Pentagon announced the US currently has “approximately 2,000” troops in Syria, more than double the previously disclosed ...

After Washington sagely avoided deep entanglement in the country for decades, U.S. policy after 2011 – when the uprising to ...

Readers debate what Sen. Chris Van Hollen got right, and wrong, about the Biden administration’s Israel policy.