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 ...

Amidst the turmoil in Gaza, Israel’s war against Hamas and Hezbollah, security concerns in the Red Sea following attacks by ...

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 ...

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

Syria's future as a unified state hangs in the balance as both countries pursue long-standing plans to cement hegemonic ...

Several Sunni Arab tribes in northeast Syria, which encompasses 30 percent of the country and is currently under the control ...

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 ...

GENEVA (Reuters) -War crimes were likely committed by interim government forces as well as by fighters loyal to Syria's ...

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

DAMASCUS (AP) — Ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad said Monday he wanted to stay in the country after rebels captured the capital, but the Russian military evacuated him from their base in ...