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 ...

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has won major diplomatic victories since seizing power nine months ago, but he risks losing ...

STEVEN SIMON is a Visiting Professor and Distinguished Fellow at Dartmouth College and Senior Fellow at the Quincy Institute ...

Radical jihadis and other extremist groups are carrying out mass killings and other human rights violations against Syria s ...

The Senate and House are on a collision course over whether to repeal comprehensive sanctions on Syria, a rare area where there are bipartisan coalitions on both sides of the debate.

Most of the affected families in the al-Sumaria neighbourhood are Alawites, the religious minority group to which the ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad belongs. The development comes as Syria's ...

Simply put, the Syrian leadership is actively playing a role on the side of Israel against the Palestinian people and to divide Syria even further.

A once-strong Christian community in Syria has dwindled under persecution as families there have faced executions and ...

However, according to the writers, Syria is now facing a new wave of violent fragmentation. The core problem with U.S. policy ...

Dozens of families have fled a historically Alawite neighbourhood of Damascus under threat of death, amid fears for the community's future in the Syrian capital under Islamist rule, residents told AFP ...