We like the Irish,” is a reassuring thing to hear when you’re travelling in the back of a Hiace full of Islamist fighters in the middle of the night and feeling a bit jumpy. We’d met a young militant, ...

Rescuers searched through debris and recovered 16 bodies, including five women and five children, and reported that 18 others ...

To visit the Alawite community of Homs, you have to drive through a checkpoint controlled by masked gunmen from the General Security department of Syria’s new government. Whether those troops ...

Homs (Syria) (AFP) – Once dubbed the capital of ... said the 30-year-old mother of four. "Despite the destruction, we're happy to be back. This is our neighbourhood and our land." ...

HOMS, Syria — His face is everywhere in Syria. It's plastered on the country's new flags, on sweaters and on the side of buses. His voice, untrained and unfiltered, is ubiquitous, too ...

The reported fighting in the capital, Damascus, and the second city of Aleppo were the first such clashes there since the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime.

Syria's new rulers, who ousted Assad in December, said a military operation is now being launched in the former president's home town of Qardaha. In his first statement since the violence broke ...

Alawite leaders say their community around Latakia and Tartous as well as near Homs, Syria's third-biggest city, have been targeted since the Assad regime was toppled in December. Assad was from ...

(Yahya Nemah for NPR) HOMS, Syria — His face is everywhere in ... Al-Sarout struggled with the death and destruction, but he increasingly advocated for violence over singing as his preferred ...