When Bashar al-Assad’s government collapsed, the dominant international narrative was one of return. Refugees, it was said, would come home. A postwar Syria would begin rebuilding. What has drawn far less attention is a quieter movement in the opposite ...

The tangible outcome of Secretary of State John Kerry’s meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Moscow a few weeks ago was an agreement to convene a conference in Geneva to find a political solution to the civil war in Syria. Few observers ...

Israel's expansionist policy in Syria's Golan Heights and its support for the Druze and Kurdish minorities are justified by Israeli officials on the grounds that they are protecting natural allies and countering Turkish influence. Yet Syria expert Joshua ...

(Reuters) - Syria has suffered its worst bloodshed since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power, with more than 1,000 people reported killed in violence that has swept the coastal region since Thursday. The violence has pitted the Islamist-led government's ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 17 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund said on Monday it planned an "intensive program of engagement" with Syria to help it rebuild its economy, but a statement issued at the end of an IMF staff visit to Damascus did not mention any ...

After one of the most brutal wars of this century, a new Syria is rising from the disastrous legacy of the toppled dictator Bashar al-Assad. His photos have been torn from the walls, as people exercise freedoms denied during his family’s decades-long reign.