- The Christians are split into a number of denominations - some of them tiny communities with ancient roots in pre-Islamic ...

We found ourselves unable to cooperate with any faction.”In 2006, Al-Tamimi joined the Democratic Coalition of Syria and ...

This past weekend’s sectarian violence was possibly among the bloodiest 72 hours in the modern history of Syria after 14 ...

Democracy and peace are not guaranteed when a dictator falls — sometimes, a country’s fate turns uglier and messier.

The Syrian Network for Human Rights said armed groups and foreign fighters aligned with the government but not integrated ...

Members of the small religious sect find themselves caught between two forces that many of them distrust: the new, ...

A man points at bullet holes in a window of a hospital following a spate of violence between Syrian security forces and insurgents loyal to ousted President Bashar al-Assad in Syria’s coastal ...

If the new regime in Damascus keeps pressuring the Druze to hand over their weapons, the ensuing battles could lead to a ...

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 ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days.

By Euan Ward Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon Violence between government security forces and gunmen loyal to the ousted regime of President Bashar al-Assad has erupted in Syria’s coastal region.