Relations between Beirut and Damascus remain tense — as they have been for decades past, a time during which Syria failed to ...

A lot has happened in just a year on both sides of the Lebanon-Syria border. A lightning offensive by Islamist insurgents in Syria toppled longtime autocrat Bashar Assad and brought a new gov ...

A U.N.-backed commission has found widespread and systematic violence against civilians in Syria's coastal region ...

A U.N.-backed commission has found widespread and systematic violence against civilians in Syria’s coastal region ...

Foreign fighters and others who joined Syria's civil war from abroad have petitioned the new Islamist-led government for ...

A U.N.-backed commission that investigated sectarian violence on Syria's coast earlier this year found that there was ...

Rewarding them with Syrian citizenship could alienate Syrians and foreign states whose support the new government. Foreign ...

War crimes were likely committed by interim government forces as well as by fighters loyal to Syria's former rulers during ...

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

Russia's top diplomat has met with Syria's new foreign minister for talks in Moscow during the first formal visit by a Syrian official since President Bashar Assad was ousted last year despite years o ...

Explore the newly uncovered tunnels used by Assad in Syria. Discover escape routes, underground bunkers, and hidden luxury ...

War crimes were likely committed by members of interim government forces as well as by fighters loyal to Syria's former ...