Because of its religious diversity and bloody history during the civil war, the city is considered a test case for the new ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

The regime set up by Hafez al-Assad after the coup d'état of November 13, 1970, had only one objective: Its own continuity, ...

Alawites account for about nine percent of Syria’s population, or around 1.7 million people. The community has been repeatedly targeted since Assad’s ouster.

In a centuries-old monastery on a rocky hill north of Damascus, friends of missing Italian priest Paolo Dall'Oglio carry on ...

Armed factions in Syria are reacting to a recent decision by the new leadership in Damascus to dissolve all armed groups.

Syria’s interim president has made his first trip abroad, traveling to Saudi Arabia in a move likely trying to signal ...

and Alawites. The Kurdish-controlled northeast and the Druze in the south of Syria, therefore, have remained adamant about their vision of federalism and decentralization, despite the new Islamist ...

The regime of the Syrian dictator systematically devastated numerous cities, preventing the displaced from returning to their places of origin. The presence of the new governor of Damascus, Maher ...

After the fall of the Assad regime, displaced Syrian women are feeling more hopeful. But there is still plenty of uncertainty in Syria's postwar future. The post Displaced Syrian Women Are ...