The Alwaites, who primarily live in Syria's coastal regions, particularly in the provinces of Latakia and Tartus, are ...

Thousands of Syrian refugees are going back to their homeland but conditions there remain extremely challenging ...

France ruled through minority groups that would be too small ... Syria’s military consolidated power in a 1970 coup led by Hafez Al Assad, an Alawite general and the father of Bashar Al Assad. Syria’s ...

US President Donald Trump officialised a remarkable pivot in US-Syria relations on Monday by enacting his promise to lift ...

President Trump has signed an executive order terminating US sanctions on Syria, as part of efforts to boost the nation's ...

Syrian refugees, who fled to Lebanon more than a decade ago to escape war, violence and persecution, have slowly begun to ...

Syria is now ready to work on land demarcation with Lebanon, Lebanese Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji said Tuesday. Rajji said ...

Last week, a Syrian doctor's trial for torture ended in Frankfurt. The verdict marks a turning point. Following the fall of ...

It is the Iranian leadership's almost pathological hatred for Israel, rather than the possession of nuclear weapons per se, ...

At the height of its power, Islam once controlled vast territories: from Morocco to China and from Russia down to sub-Saharan Africa. The rise of the European colonial empires, notably those of ...