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” ...

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

Inclusivity and moderation are indeed immediate priorities for Syria, but a big national vote is not. Democracy does not ...

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

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

U.S., French and German envoys have warned Syria's new Islamist rulers that their appointment of foreign jihadists to senior ...

Security personnel of the former government have come in the thousands to so-called reconciliation centers to settle their affairs.

Iraq said on Friday that it has extended its concrete wall along the Syrian border amid political and security uncertainty in ...

The international community should focus on empowering Syria’s local civil society groups and advocating for women’s rights ...

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

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