ISTANBUL — Turkey’s top diplomat, defense minister and intelligence chief paid a sudden visit to Damascus on Thursday, days after Syria’s interim government reached a deal to integrate a U.S backed ...

The question asked by many Syrians from Alawite, Shiite, Druse, Christian and other minority communities has become: “Can [I] ...

The violence in Alawite areas is one sign of Syria’s fragmentation. In the north, Kurdish groups have their own enclaves and ...

Oweis said Syrian forces looted hundreds of Christian homes during the assault on Alawite communities between the coastal towns of Tartus and Latakia. Jihadis stormed the home of Oweis’s friend and ...

This raised doubts that the new leadership’s intent was not only to suppress armed dissent but also to punish the civilian population. The tensions along Syria’s coastal region and in the Latakia ...

Sharaa, seemed to waver between his jihadist past and his presidential present. After the first day of violence he made a ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Syria’s interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa on Thursday approved a draft constitutional declaration that ...

Iraq’s upcoming elections could mark a turning point in regional dynamics as Iran’s influence wanes with early signs of ...

Turkish forces killed 24 Kurdish militants in northern Iraq and Syria over the past week, the defence ministry said on Thursday, continuing attacks in the region after a disarmament call from the PKK ...

The Lebanese army on Thursday received a soldier who had been detained by Israel on Sunday, the army said in a post on X.

The deal aims to stitch back together a country fractured by 14 years of war, paving the way for Kurdish-led forces which hold a quarter of Syria to merge with Damascus, along with regional Kurdish go ...

The agreement between the commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces, Mazloum Abdi, and the interim president of Syria, Ahmed ...