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

A Russian delegation tells Damascus it wants certain Syrian opposition groups included in the upcoming national dialogue ...

Officials in Syria's caretaker government were left with a state in ruins. Some fear they aren't moving fast enough to fix it ...

(Tribune News Service) — Russia is struggling to retain two military bases in Syria that have enabled it to project influence in the Middle East and Africa, according to a person in Moscow ...

BRUSSELS, Jan 27 (Reuters) - European Union foreign ministers have agreed on a roadmap to ease sanctions on Syria, the bloc's ... and Christina Fincher Middle Eastcategory Joy turns to despair ...

Middle East Syria's new leadership has seized abandoned military housing previously occupied by former high-ranking soldiers who fled following the ouster of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad.

While the fall of the Assad dynasty represents an epochal turning point for Syrians, the future remains in all senses ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested Friday that his county’s military might not withdraw all of its forces ...

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"Syria as a whole is like a human being, like a body that cannot live without any of its organs. The eastern regions that are now under the authority of what is called SDF cannot live without the ...

The hillside village lies near the city of Tartus, in the heartland of Syria’s Alawites, an offshoot of Shia Islam from which the Assads hail. Pictures of Bashar al-Assad, the ousted dictator ...

The group that once terrorized the Middle East and inspired attacks elsewhere in the world is looking to exploit Syria’s uncertain future to rebuild its influence—half a decade after U.S.-led ...