Sunni regional powerhouses Turkey and Saudi Arabia have had a complicated and often contentious relationship over the years.

A U.S. official said Assad had "sat out" the war to avoid further Israeli strikes on Syria, and remained under "tremendous pressure" not to allow Hezbollah to re-arm through his country.

President Donald Trump said the US would explore normalizing relations with Syria after the toppling of longtime autocrat Bashar al-Assad, adding to a pledge to lift sanctions against the country’s ...

Neighbors and colleagues reported on each other everywhere. Now, Syrians are shadowed by the question of who among them had ...

Reports have also emerged of Assad's two top allies, Iran and Russia, pulling personnel out of Syria as government control rapidly shrunk to the capital and the west coast, including the Alawite ...

The Observatory characterized many of the killings as executions and massacres, carried out in revenge against the Alawite community, which made up Assad's traditional base of support. The human ...

Days before his troops overthrew the regime of Bashar Assad, Ahmad al-Sharaa declared that Syria deserves a system in which no “single ruler makes arbitrary decisions.” Sharaa, once a feared ...

Armed men loyal to the Syrian government carried out field executions and spoke of ... of a crackdown against remnants of the former Assad regime that spiraled into communal killings.