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

Massacres, often ignored or forgotten by the outside world but not by their victims, are one of the great driving forces of ...

Syria’s new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa – formerly known by ... and with the support of the Trump administration is looking for greater ambition,” Natasha Hall, a senior fellow with the Middle East Program ...

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

Internal displacement in Syria was used by the Assad regime to reshape the country's political and social landscape, a new ...

Umit Bektas/Reuters Turkey has also emerged in the past few months with greater influence in Syria because of its ties to the rebel group that overthrew Mr. al-Assad. The P.K.K.’s decisions over ...

“No one should feel like a minority but should feel like they are a special part of a greater prosperity by benefiting from ...

But backing Israel is expensive and Mr Trump hates spending lavishly to defend America’s allies. On top of $18bn in military ...

he said that while past Syrian constitutions declared Islamic Sharia as the basis of law, the Assad family never enforced it, and religious freedom was greater during that time. Deputy Official of ...

With the demise of the Assad regime, however, the United States can choose to work with a likely more influential and effective partner in the battle against the remnants of ISIS: the new Syrian ...

Mr. Shara dropped his militant name in favor of his birth name and renamed his army to indicate support for the people of al-Sham, or greater Syria, rather than a greater Islamic state. “He’s a ...