Greek Foreign Minister Giorigios Gerapetritis warned Europe and the U.S. to "keep a close eye" on Syria's new governing ...

The grim job of graves being dug, and burials has finally begun up and down the Syrian coast as calm is slowly restored, and ...

Ali Koshmr, a 36-year-old man from Syria's Latakia, around 330 km from Damascus, woke up to the sounds of gunfire, tires ...

Many Western nations, including Canada, had put a range of sanctions against Syria under its ousted President Bashar al-Assad ...

Syria witnesses its deadliest violence since Assad’s ouster, with over 1,000 killed. The conflict between Sunni-led ...

While Alawites are generally considered an offshoot of Shia Islam, their beliefs and practices are far more complex ...

The clashes began between government forces and supporters of former President Bashar Assad and later escalated into revenge ...

Syria’s interim president, Ahmed al-Shara, appealed yesterday for calm and unity after violence erupted last week between ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol near Latakia by pro-Assad gunmen has ignited days of clashes, leading to over 1,000 ...

Islamic State imposed hardline Islamist rule over millions of people in Syria and Iraq for years, and has been trying to ...

Iraqi prime minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani announced on Friday that Abdullah Maki Musleh al-Rifai, known as Abu Khadija, ...

Alawites are an Arab ethnic and religious group, with distinct cultures, languages and religious beliefs. They live mainly in ...