Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

The new leadership of the country said the rebel coalition leader, Ahmed al-Shara, would serve as president during a ...

At the bottom of Nisrine Ezzedine's garden, cement blocks mark the graves of her husband, son and nephew, all killed by foreign jihadists in Syria's Alawite minority heartland. She said her civil ...

Though Tehran scrambled to help the Assads face off the rebel assault, soldiers were turning on their own commanders ...

Officers say the move aims to instil a sense of morality as they race to fill a security vacuum after dismantling ousted president Bashar al-Assad's notoriously corrupt and brutal security forces.

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

A scheduled meeting between the ENKS and the Democratic Union Party (PYD), under American mediation, is expected to finalize ...