Syria's new authorities are using Islamic teachings to train a fledgling police force, a move officers say aims to instil a ...

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

As insurgents raced across Syria in a surprise offensive launched in the country's northwest late last year, officials from ...

Mouath al-Kasaesbeh was locked in a cage and burned alive by IS after being captured when his plane was shot down, with ...

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

As midday approaches in Damascus, Syria’s capital, thousands of people from all corners of the country converge on Umayyad ...

The Israeli military says its soldiers killed an alleged militant in Gaza whom it said posed a threat to its forces ...

Now a bestselling novelist, McCloskey reveals why he quit ‘the secret world’ to write spy fiction worthy of le Carré ...

When Syrian grandfather Omar Kafozi returned to his house near Damascus after Bashar al-Assad's ouster, he saw unfathomable destruction.Now, cushions and plants brighten the wreckage that he is ...

Failure to reach a ceasefire and longer-term political accord in the north-east could destabilise Syria. Read more at ...

The deal was struck for Khan Mohammad, a member of the Taliban serving two life sentences in a U.S. prison on 'narco-terrorism charges.' ...