On a street corner in the old town of Damascus, rugged men with rifles stare sharply at passers-by. Despite their appearance, ...

Assad’s fall in December, prominent Sunni religious leaders returned from exile to counter the dominant Salafist influence, ...

Syria’s Islamist leaders pledged to respect religious freedom despite their radical past. Many Christians and Shiites are ...

Donald Trump’s pick to oversee 18 intelligence agencies with a $100 billion spy budget is facing renewed scrutiny over an unannounced trip to Syria in 2017 where she met with the now-deposed dictator ...

More than 200 million Christians are associated with Orthodox Churches and most celebrate Christmas on 7 January.

For more than a decade, some 6 million Syrians fled the Assad regime for other countries. Now, the opposite is happening. With the fall of that dictatorship last December, a new kind of refugee is ...

Ahmad al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammad al-Julani, is Syria's new de facto leader since Syria's former president Bashar al-Assad was deposed by Syrian rebels led by al-Julani's organization ...

On Jan. 1, 2025, several media outlets including Newsweek and The Sun reported on a supposed poison attack on the exiled former president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, who resides in Russia, as of this ...

Officers say the move aims to instil a sense of morality as they race to fill a security vacuum after dismantling ousted president Bashar al-Assad's notoriously corrupt and brutal security forces.

Iranian forces, which had long been present in Syria under an alliance with President Bashar al-Assad, are all but gone as its members have all either fled or been ordered to withdraw since the ...