Seven months of relative calm in Syria came to a bloody end last week, when what began as local skirmishes escalated into the ...

Assad’s fall, deadly sectarian clashes in southwestern Syria have exposed one of the biggest challenges to the country’s ...

Hosam Saraya, who had returned to Syria to aid his ill father, was executed along with other members of his family. Their ...

A scholar of religious minorities and the Middle East explains the historical persecution and marginalization of the Alawite ...

After nearly 14 years of civil war, Syria's Assad regime crumbled in a stunning series of rebel advances culminating in the ...

Sectarian violence in southern Syria is shattering hopes for a united country among the country's Druze minority ...

France's highest court Friday annulled a French arrest warrant against Syria's ex-president Bashar al-Assad -- issued before ...

If Israel proceeds with a plan to divide Syria to “protect” the Druze in the south, it would have to send ground forces into Sweida - an area nearly a quarter the size of Israel. Military conquest ...

In the aftermath of intense sectarian fighting, the eerily silent streets of Syria's southern province of Sweida are filled ...