Seven months of relative calm in Syria came to a bloody end last week, when what began as local skirmishes escalated into the ...

Assad’s fall, deadly sectarian clashes in southwestern Syria have exposed one of the biggest challenges to the country’s ...

After nearly 14 years of civil war, Syria's Assad regime crumbled in a stunning series of rebel advances culminating in the ...

A scholar of religious minorities and the Middle East explains the historical persecution and marginalization of the Alawite ...

PARIS (Reuters) -France's Cour de Cassation, the country's highest court, ruled on Friday that a warrant issued for former ...

France's highest court Friday annulled a French arrest warrant against Syria's ex-president Bashar al-Assad -- issued before ...

A shadow committee is remaking Syria's economy with secret takeovers of Assad-era companies. A Reuters investigation has ...