A spate of attacks involving loyalists to former ruler President Bashar al-Assad has spurred concerns of a return to sectarian warfare in Syria, but there is still a path for the country’s new

In recent days, Syria suffered the worst violence since the toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad last December. Deadly clashes erupted last week in former Assad strongholds between Syria’s new Islamist rulers and insurgents loyal to the former president,

After Syria’s longtime autocratic ruler was toppled late last year, the man who led rebel groups to victory immediately faced a new challenge: unifying the country after more than a decade of civil wa