Professor Abdallah Khalil Al-Tamimi, a Syrian religious scholar and peace activist who has spent more than three decades in exile studying Islamic jurisprudence and foundational principles, spoke ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Clashes between government forces and members of a minority sect in Syria have drawn intervention by Israel and once again raised fears of a breakdown in the country’s fragile postwar ...

A group of Syrian-American Jews has registered a nongovernmental organization in Syria to restore Jewish heritage.

BEIRUT (AP) — A month after a wave of revenge attacks left hundreds of Alawite civilians dead, members of the Syrian religious minority are still living in fear, with dozens killed in smaller ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Hundreds of people demonstrated in Syria’s southern city of Sweida and elsewhere on Saturday to demand the right to self determination for the Druze minority, the largest protests to ...

When Americans think of the Middle East, we often focus on the headlines: wars between states, clashes between Sunnis and Shias, or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Beneath those familiar stories ...

Indiscriminate violence in Syria that led to the death of 745 civilians over the last three days has observers wondering if Syria’s newly installed president, the former leader of a designated ...

Last Saturday, an Islamic State infiltrator ambushed a meeting between American soldiers and their local counterparts in a ...

Syria’s government and its allies on Friday welcomed the final lifting of the most draconian sanctions imposed on the country ...