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 favored its own religious community for military and ...

Sheikh's excitement at returning to his homeland from neighbouring Turkey after the fall of Bashar al-Assad has turned to ...

The U.S. freeze comes as IS tries to take advantage of the vacuum created by the fall of Assad’s government in early December ...

The Trump administration’s unprecedented freeze on foreign aid has caused chaos and uncertainty in a camp holding thousands ...

Syria’s newly appointed interim president, Ahmed al-Shara, arrived in Saudi Arabia on Sunday for his first foreign trip since ...

The leader of the former rebel group that toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad has been named the country’s interim ...

Former rebels now controlling Syria name an interim president and throw out the constitution adopted under Assad, saying a ...

The move to put religion at the center of policing risks seeding new rifts in a diverse country awash with guns after 13 ...

Officers say the move aims to instil a sense of morality as they race to fill a security vacuum after dismantling ousted ...

“You can walk around Damascus now without encountering checkpoints, without having to see pictures of Bashar al-Assad everywhere,” said Bassam ... s religious sects and ethnic minorities. | Ali Haj ...

MUMBAI, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan was stabbed repeatedly ... in three days and Syria's deadliest since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power in December.