Once Syria's most influential minority, Alawites struggle to move on from their association with a hated dictator.

Any withdrawal of US military forces and equipment from Syria by new US President Donald Trump would be a “nightmare” ...

Turkish soldier deployment in Syria will continue, Defense Ministry sources said Thursday, as terrorist groups remain a ...

The leaders of two previously rival Kurdish groups have met in northern Iraq in an apparent step toward reconciliation at a ...

The new Syrian regime can only be trusted if it concedes meaningful decentralization to the country’s minority groups.

Depending on need, redeployment of troops in Syria or their assignment to different regions may be considered, says ministry ...

They are looking to resolve one of the most explosive questions looming over Syria: the fate of Kurdish forces that the U.S.

An official with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) said on Thursday the militant group would agree to leave northeastern ...

Syria's interim rulers are trying to form a united national army after the fall of Bashar Assad late last year ...

Armed revolution in neighbouring Syria has been viewed with concern. The Islamist rebels now in power in Damascus were among the Sunni Muslim militants that entered Shia-majority Iraq from Syria ...

Her family had lost hope she would ever return after Islamic State fighters took her and thousands of other Yazidi women and ...

IRBIL, Iraq — The leaders of two previously rival Kurdish groups met in northern Iraq on Thursday in an apparent step toward reconciliation at a time when the political upheaval in Syria has ...