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

The killings occurred in the heartland of Syria’s Alawite minority, escalating after a nascent insurgency formed against the ...

Syria’s top diplomat and his counterparts from neighboring countries have called for the lifting of Western-led sanctions and ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor ...

Among the uncertainties facing Syria is the future of U.S. involvement in the country. Since 2014, Washington has backed a de ...

The recent killings of Alawite and Christian civilians by the new Syrian government have been condemned by the U.S., while the EU offered a different response.

Fighters siding with Syria’s new government stormed three villages near the country’s coast, killing dozens of men in ...

Scores have been killed in fierce clashes between government forces and gunmen loyal to the Assad regime, in a serious ...

Lawmakers from both parties and policy experts agreed that sanctions should be slowly lifted in exchange for Syrian action on ...

The lobbying points to a concerted Israeli campaign to influence U.S. policy at a critical juncture for Syria, as the ...

"A confrontation, possibly even a small-scale military one, may occur between Israel and Turkey," one expert told Newsweek.