Reports suggest that negotiations over Assad’s fate are closely tied to the broader normalization of relations between ...

"The fighting took place in the villages of Latakia, where Alawites coexist with Orthodox Christians. On the road outside the ...

When we went downstairs, our blood ran cold at the sight we saw. My father-in-law was lying on the floor, covered in blood.

Standing beside the bodies of two men lying on the ground, blood pooling around one of them, in the Syrian village of Qabo Al-Awamiya in the Latakia countryside, a woman shouts in despair ...

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Trump administration monitoring actions of Syria's new rulers, State Dept says The administration of President Donald Trump is monitoring the actions of Syria's interim leaders as Washington ...

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Our Syria correspondents travelled to the country's western coastal province of Latakia, which was the scene of the shocking ...

Syria's health-care system has undergone profound upheaval over the past decade, shaped by conflict, fragmentation, and now, a tenuous political transition. The acute conflict phase (2011–15) ...

The conflict between Israel and Palestinians — and other groups in the Middle East — goes back decades. These stories provide context for current developments and the history that led up to them.