An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor ...

Two days of fighting along the Mediterranean coast were among the bloodiest battles since rebels ousted the dictator Bashar ...

"To be honest, the Alawites clearly ask for international protection," a former Syrian diplomat told Newsweek.

Shara, guarantees individual freedoms but gives Mr. al-Shara abundant power and keeps Islamic law as its legal foundation.

A spate of attacks involving loyalists to former ruler President Bashar al-Assad has spurred concerns of a return to ...

Syria's new temporary constitution concentrates power in interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa's hands and fails to include ...

Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.

Syria’s interim government has announced the end of a days-long military operation against insurgents loyal to ousted president Bashar Assad and his family in the worst fighting since the end of the 1 ...