"To be honest, the Alawites clearly ask for international protection," a former Syrian diplomat told Newsweek.

Internal displacement in Syria was used by the Assad regime to reshape the country's political and social landscape, a new ...

A spate of attacks involving loyalists to former ruler President Bashar al-Assad has spurred concerns of a return to ...

Sectarian-driven killings of civilians this month displayed the government’s weak control over both its own forces and ...

Interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa accuses Assad loyalists and foreign powers of fomenting unrest with aim of dragging country ...

Hundreds of people were killed and residents of Syria’s coastal governorates are scared to leave home. The government of Syria says it has ended an operation in the coastal governorates of Latakia and ...

Armed men loyal to the Syrian government carried out field executions and spoke of purifying the country, according to ...

DARAA, Syria — Family members of Syrians who disappeared in the country’s 14-year civil war gathered in the city of Daraa on Sunday to urge the newly installed interim government to not give ...

Most other Druze live in Lebanon and Israel, including in the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Mideast War and annexed in 1981. In Syria, the Druze take pride in their ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Abdulwahab Omira escaped Syria's civil war with his family as a teenager, shortly after he was freed from prison, having witnessed terrible abuses by the former regime.

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days An ambush ...

A man points at bullet holes in a window of a hospital following a spate of violence between Syrian security forces ... which contracted 84 percent during the war; if they seek to impose Islamic ...