Once Syria's most influential minority, Alawites struggle to move on from their association with a hated dictator.

As Syria’s new Islamist rulers reshape the way schools teach the nation’s history, students struggle to navigate the traumas ...

The new Syrian regime can only be trusted if it concedes meaningful decentralization to the country’s minority groups.

A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital, an essential link between Europe and the Arabian ...

Syria's interim rulers are trying to form a united national army after the fall of Bashar Assad late last year ...

Analysis: Since Assad's fall, hundreds have been killed in the escalating conflict between the Turkish-backed SNA and Kurdish ...

The war reached Syria in 1941 as a pro-allied French faction and the British took Syria and ruled it until 1945 when Syria finally became independent. Before that could happen there was a ...

Before the war began in 2011, Syria was home to more than 1.5 million Christians. Today, Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church estimates that number has fallen to around 400,000.

Before Syria’s conflict began in 2011 ... which at some point during the war was protected by rebels. It and the whole destroyed suburb “needs to be reconstructed from scratch.” ...

A day earlier, hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets in Christian areas of Damascus to protest the burning of a Christmas tree near Hama in central Syria. Before the civil war erupted in ...

Early in Syria’s 13-year civil war, which began in 2011 ... Why didn’t they speak up before this?” Mr. Hilal, part of Syria’s Sunni Muslim majority, said that when he was in the military ...

Syria's new ruler and Lebanon's prime minister pledged on Saturday to build lasting ties during the first visit by a Lebanese ...