A new premier in France and soon in Canada, a new coalition in Austria, new presidents in Georgia and Moldova despite ...

But Alawites, from a branch of Shiite Islam, have an acute fear of reprisals because of their connection to the Assad clan, which recruited from and favoured its own religious community for military ...

Their meeting was the first since the former rebel leader led the offensive that last month toppled Syria’s former autocratic ...

The Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the world’s millions of Ismaili Muslims and a major philanthropist, has died. His son ...

Syria’s new interim leader, meeting on Tuesday with the president of Turkey, thanked him for backing the rebel forces that ...

DAMASCUS: A car bomb killed 20 people in northern Syria on Monday, authorities said, vowing to punish those behind the attack ...

Ahmed al-Sharaa, leader of the organization that overthrew Syria’s Assad regime, has “assumed the presidency of the country ...

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In the words of Axios ‘ news director, the Syrian Civil War “changed everything,” leading to the climax of the Global War on ...

A hmed al-Sharaa, Syria’s president, spoke to The Economist on January 31st in Damascus. The conversation has been translated ...

German President, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, on Monday began a three-day visit to the Middle East, primarily to gather ...

Scattered across Rojava - the Kurdish-led region in Syria that spearheaded the global fight against the Islamic State - there are prisons holding thousands upon thousands of captured ISIS fighters ...