The killings occurred in the heartland of Syria’s Alawite minority, escalating after a nascent insurgency formed against the ...

When I interviewed Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Damascus on Feb. 27, neither one of us knew ...

Among the uncertainties facing Syria is the future of U.S. involvement in the country. Since 2014, Washington has backed a de ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor ...

Scores have been killed in fierce clashes between government forces and gunmen loyal to the Assad regime, in a serious ...

The recent killings of Alawite and Christian civilians by the new Syrian government have been condemned by the U.S., while the EU offered a different response.

Lawmakers from both parties and policy experts agreed that sanctions should be slowly lifted in exchange for Syrian action on ...

"A confrontation, possibly even a small-scale military one, may occur between Israel and Turkey," one expert told Newsweek.

The new Syrian government has yet to firmly establish a safe foothold in the country and faces threats from Assad sympathizers who supported his decades-long rule.

The lobbying points to a concerted Israeli campaign to influence U.S. policy at a critical juncture for Syria, as the ...

To contain Turkey, Israeli officials have sought to persuade US officials that Russia should keep its Mediterranean naval ...