Syria's Education Ministry is considering removing from the school curriculum, Queen Zenobia, one of the country's most emblematic icons. Among the controversial proposals is a drive to do away ...

Syria is the scene of an escalating rivalry between two U.S. allies — Turkey and Israel. Analysts say Israel is becoming alarmed at Turkey's growing military and diplomatic influence in Syria ...

By Euan Ward and Raja Abdulrahim Euan Ward reported from Beirut, Lebanon, and Raja Abdulrahim from Aleppo, Syria. Violence between government security forces and gunmen loyal to the ousted regime ...

Syria's new caretaker government announced the end of a days-long military operation against fighters loyal to overthrown president Bashar al-Assad on Monday, marking the worst fighting since the ...

A Syrian military operation against remnants of the former Assad regime has now ended, having sparked some of the worst violence seen in the country in years. Hundreds of people have been killed ...

With Bashar al-Assad's departure, the fate of Syria's Alawite community remains precarious. Once empowered by the regime, many Alawites now face reprisals from rebel factions and displaced Sunni ...

Residents described shootings outside their homes and bodies in the streets in Syria’s worst unrest since Bashar al-Assad’s ouster. More than 1,000 people have been killed since Thursday ...

The death toll from two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more than 1,000, a war ...

Hundreds of civilians have been killed in Syria in the last 48 hours, the deadliest eruption of violence since the fall of the Assad regime in December. The U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human ...

Clashes between government security forces and supporters of ousted former President Bashar al-Assad have killed at least 311 people in Syria since Thursday, according to a monitoring group that ...

More than 1,000 people, mostly Alawite civilians, have been killed by security forces in just a few days, throwing into question the ability of Syria's new government to maintain peace in a ...

When I graduated, the security situation inside Syria remained very volatile and I had no choice but to apply for asylum. I became a refugee, a label that carries both immense hardship and profound ...