Inclusivity and moderation are indeed immediate priorities for Syria, but a big national vote is not. Democracy does not ...

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

As Syria’s new Islamist rulers reshape the way schools teach the nation’s history, students struggle to navigate the traumas ...

Daesh’s influence and capabilities have been severely degraded in the past few years. In the Iraqi and Syrian contexts, the group is a shadow of its former self, particularly when compared with its ...

In Syria's third city Homs, members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite community say they are terrified as new ...

The United Nations is ready to work with the Syrian interim government on advancing towards a credible and inclusive ...

The United States on Monday issued sanction exemptions and waivers for transactions with Syrian governing institutions for six months in an effort to ease the flow of humanitarian assistance and allow ...

The Security Council met on Wednesday to discuss political and humanitarian developments exactly a month on from the collapse ...

Fighters in southern Syria who helped topple President Bashar al-Assad are reluctant to disarm and disband as ordered by the country's new rulers, their spokesman told AFP.

Many observers considered that the Al-Assad government had implicitly recognised its loss of sovereignty over some parts of Syrian territory and some portions of the Syrian people in return for a ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) teams have noticed a shift in de-mographics of returnees from ...

The French and German foreign ministers called for a peaceful, inclusive transition in Syria as they visited Damascus Friday ...