The new leadership in Damascus is exerting efforts to mend fences with Syria’s Druze community, weeks after the latter’s spiritual leaders accused the new Syrian government of being “extremist in ...

Mayada pointed to a divot picked out of the pavement in front of her parents’ house — the hole left by the bullet when gunmen ...

Syria’s government said late on Friday that it was “closely following” the findings of a new Amnesty International report ...

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to inform the report on older persons in armed conflict and ...

DANA STROUL is Director of Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and served as U.S. Deputy Assistant ...

A 12-year-old boy was among four civilians killed Monday in Syria ’s Tartous province, provincial officials said. The coastal ...

Four people, including a 12-year-old boy, have been killed in a shooting in Tartous province, home to a majority Alawite population ...

The hardest part, she added, is sitting for the fast-breaking meal known as “iftar” without some loved ones, including her father and a son, who she said was killed before the family fled Syria. She ...

Study finds genetic imprints in three generations of Syrian refugees. Researchers urge caution in interpreting findings and ...

Those kidnapped included a retired teacher, an engineering student and a mechanic, all of them Alawite - the minority sect of ...

That unleashed a spree of revenge killings there that left hundreds of Alawites dead. Syria's interim president Ahmed ...