Assad's Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shia Islam whose members make up one of Syria's biggest religious minorities. Alawites ...

Druze residents in the Syrian capital of Damascus held a memorial for relatives who were killed at the Sednaya Prison, a ...

Syria's new rulers have appointed Murhaf Abu Qasra, a leading figure in the insurgency which toppled Bashar al-Assad, as ...

Syrians who remained loyal to him through years of civil war fume that he left without a word. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Earlier on Saturday, the ruling General Command named Asaad Hassan al-Shibani as foreign minister, SANA said. A source in the ...

The buffer zone between Syria and the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights was created by the U.N. after the 1973 Mideast war. A ...

With hostile Turkish-backed groups mobilising against them in Syria's north, and Damascus ruled by a group friendly to Ankara ...

School lessons ended in Syria's biggest Palestinian refugee camp on October 18, 2012, judging by the date still chalked up on ...

DAMASCUS - Syria’s new rulers have appointed Murhaf Abu Qasra, a leading figure in the insurgency which toppled Bashar ...

Qatar officially reopened its embassy in the Syrian capital Damascus on Saturday, raising its national flag over the building ...

ABUJA -- At least 10 people, including four children, were killed in a stampede during a relief item distribution at a local church in the Maitama district of Abuja, the Nigerian capital, on Saturday.

Turkey will do "whatever it takes" to ensure its security if the new Syrian administration cannot address Ankara's concerns ...