Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and renewal, at a time when ...

The answer is simple: everything. This year, Ramadan is not just about its religious and social significance — it’s about an ...

Germany reopened its embassy in Damascus on Thursday, 13 years after it was shut in the early days of Syria’s civil war.

After Syria’s longtime autocratic ruler was toppled late last year, the man who led rebel groups to victory immediately faced ...

Rescuers, once targeted by the al-Assad regime, are a go-to resource for its successors, cleaning up unexploded bombs and ...

Internationally, the explosion of violence may derail the progress Sharaa has made in reassuring Western leaders that he can ferry in a Syria free of threats.

Alawites are a minority Shiite Muslim sect living predominantly in Sunni-majority Syria. The Assad family, members of the ...

Hundreds of people were killed in Syria over four days after violent clashes between the army and loyalists of the deposed president Bashar al-Assad swept its western coastal region. What began ...

Syria’s interim government says it has reached a landmark agreement with Kurdish-led forces to integrate them into state institutions as it tries to unify the country’s diverse communities ...