Assad's Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shia Islam whose members make up one of Syria's biggest religious minorities. Alawites ...

"I believe there will be violent fighting, the end of which we do not know," a top Syrian Democratic Council official told ...

Syria's new rulers have appointed Murhaf Abu Qasra, a leading figure in the insurgency which toppled Bashar al-Assad, as ...

The toppling of Bashar Assad has raised tentative hopes that Syrians might live peacefully and as equals after a half century ...

Years of strife ruined the energy sector, battered the currency and strangled growth. The West must ease financial controls ...

Will he walk the walk and not just talk the talk? And if he doesn’t win in the elections, will he peacefully stand aside for ...

U.S. officials announced they conducted an airstrike on Syrian soil that killed two ISIS members, including a top official.

President-elect Donald Trump may be right that it is a “mess” in Syria now. That’s hardly surprising after the demise of a ...

The Pentagon announced the US currently has “approximately 2,000” troops in Syria, more than double the previously disclosed ...

Turkey expects foreign countries will withdraw support for Kurdish fighters in Syria following the toppling of Bashar ...

Large-scale returns of refugees to Syria could overwhelm the country and even stoke conflict following the toppling of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has more than doubled the number of its forces in Syria to fight the Islamic State group ...