As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both overjoyed and anxious. Assad and his family are Alawite, an offshoot of Shia ...

The system of detention, torture and death run by Syria’s former ruler, Bashar Assad, is starting to come out into the open.

Wide-ranging international sanctions make it a crime to work with Syria's former government. But should it be a crime to work with the new one? That's a question aid organizations, civil society ...

The system of detention, torture and death run by Syria’s former ruler, Bashar Assad, is starting to come out into the open ...

Assad’s flight from Syria marks the end of an era, but the country’s fragmented future is now being shaped by competing ...

The first international commercial flight since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad has landed Tuesday at the Damascus airport arriving from Qatar ...

The fall of the Syrian regime and loss of Iranian influence opens the door for the Lebanese to finally take their fate into ...

The Israel Defense Forces continues its intense airstrike and ground campaigns in Gaza, particularly in the north of the ...

I am a 60-year-old Scotsman with a penchant for red suspenders, oolong tea and the novels of Walter Scott, so no one will ever accuse me of being an arbiter of cool. But to understand politics and ...

The German and French foreign ministers are heading to Damascus to send what the German minister said is a clear signal that a “political new beginning” between Europe and Syria is possible.

The French and German foreign ministers are the most senior Western officials to visit Syria since longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad was toppled by rebels.

Israel, they insist, is a victim of duplicitous diplomacy, mainly by Arab countries, that condemn its acts of self-defence in ...