Samir al-Baghdad grabbed his pickax and walked up a wobbly set of stairs made of cinderblocks and rubble. He is rebuilding ...

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 ...

The fact of the matter is, though, the Russo-Iranian alliance in the Middle East has been dealt a serious blow with the loss of Assad’s regime in Syria. That is now being made all the more evident by ...

While it’s unclear what exact political path Syria will take, the dilemmas the country faces are similar to the experiences of other Arab countries more than a decade ago. In the winter of 2010, an ...

The rebel offensive benefited from careful preparation and the support of Turkey, which occupies territory in Syria’s north ...

French investigating magistrates have issued an arrest warrant against ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad for suspected ...

When Bashar al-Assad ruled Syria, merchants like Youssef Rajab kept much of their imported stock hidden for fear of arrest ...

NATO ally Turkey has emerged as the dominant state power in a new Syria, and is seeking to press its advantage by bombing and ...

After the ouster of Syria's longtime leader Bashar al-Assad last month, Israel's military has taken up a new post in the demilitarized buffer zone created in Syria after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.

More than 50,000 Syrian refugees have left Turkey to return home since Bashar al-Assad's ouster. But for many others living ...