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Revenge attacks against deposed president Assad’s heterodox Alawite sect led local evangelicals to model reconciliation ...

They called on people to preserve the institutions of “the free Syrian state ... Hama and Homs fall within days as the Syrian army melted away. Russia, Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah militant ...

Rebels said they would swiftly free political prisoners. Syrian Prime Minister Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali said he wants Syria to be a "normal country that builds good relations with its neighbors ...

President Donald Trump’s administration suspended the majority of sanctions on Syria, marking the most sweeping shift in the ...

Israel unleashed a new wave of attacks against Iran on Monday, targeting missile sites after Tehran carried out deadly ...