Syria was ruled first by a Military Committee led by Salah Jadid, and later Hafez al-Assad until 2000, when he was succeeded by his son, Bashar al-Assad. In 1988, Osama bin Laden-projected as ...

Members of the small religious sect find themselves caught between two forces that many of them distrust: the new, ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days.

Many thought they were designed to provide the Alawites with the underpinnings of an alternative state in case Syria broke up ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

The recent surge in violence reflects the power vacuum left in the wake of Assad’s downfall. Remnants of Assad’s loyalist ...

American Jews who fled their Syrian homeland decades ago went to the White House this week to appeal to the Trump ...

Outstanding issues between Damascus, the armed Druze groups, and the SDF can likely be resolved through protracted ...

Syria's capital, Damascus, has fallen to Islamists. The leader of the insurgent coalition, Abu Mohamed al-Jolani, claimed ...

Two days of fighting along the Mediterranean coast were among the bloodiest battles since rebels ousted the dictator Bashar ...

Syrian security forces clashed with Bashar Al Assad loyalists for a second day in the country's coastal region on Friday, as ...

A Syria war monitor said Friday that security forces killed 136 members of the Alawite minority, to which toppled president ...