The Alawites are a minority esoteric sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam. Between 10-12% of Syrians currently belong to the ...

The United Nations human rights chief has called for the lifting of Western sanctions imposed on Syria over its yearslong ...

NATO ally Turkey has emerged as the dominant state power in a new Syria, and is seeking to press its advantage by bombing and ...

Syria's new central bank governor, Maysaa Sabreen, said she wants to boost the institution's independence over monetary ...

The first class of Syrian police cadets since the ouster of President Bashar Assad graduated on Tuesday from the newly ...

The rebel alliance that took power has vowed to prosecute senior figures from the ousted government, but accountability will ...

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

An Assad official claims Putin betrayed his ally by promising support that never came.

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk called on Wednesday for a Syrian national reconciliation process to ...

Officials say that Turkish Airlines will resume its flights to Damascus, Syria, next week after a halt of more than a decade.

The dramatic collapse of the Assad government should clear the way for desperately needed reforms to the U.S. sanctions ...

The country’s new leaders are pushing to restore a sense of normalcy. But Syria remains under a host of international ...