The recent surge of violence in Syria lays bare the challenges interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa faces in delivering on his promise to lead a more unified country.

The decision doesn’t apply to those who received citizenship "under legal procedures, such as marriage to Syrian nationals," Director General of Civil Affairs in Syria, Abdullah Abdullah, explained ...

The bloodletting between Alawites and forces backing Syria’s new government surprised many. But tensions had been building ...

The ousted Assad dictatorship kept lists of millions of wanted people. Now, Syrians are openly asking whether they “have a ...

Syria’s new leadership faces allegations of mass killings, as Alawite communities endure field executions and mass ...

Baghdad – The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi ...

Some had been allied to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the disbanded insurgent group that in December led the overthrow of longtime ...

More than 1,000 people have died in clashes in Syria after violence erupted between government supporters and people thought to be loyal to the ousted President Bashar al Assad. The number of ...

vowed accountability and an investigation after the killing of Alawite civilians triggered an international backlash against the worst violence since Bashar al-Assad's overthrow. In its latest ...

Syria’s interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa has told worshippers in a mosque in Damascus that the violence gripping parts of the country was a “challenge”, but that “national unity and ...

But war has started again in the country. Violent clashes have begun. Former President Bashar al-Assad has returned to a fighting mood about two months after being ousted from power. The latest ...