The new government has pledged to unify Syria after overthrowing the Assad dictatorship. One of its biggest challenges is persistent sectarian violence. By Christina Goldbaum Ben Hubbard Raja ...

Instability has plagued Syria in the past two weeks after fighting broke out in two of Damascus’s suburbs and a southern governorate, drawing in government forces and non-state armed factions.

President Ahmed al-Shara, speaking during his first visit to Europe, said the talks were aimed at de-escalating tensions amid continued Israeli attacks inside Syria. By Euan Ward and Aurelien ...

Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa has said that his government is holding indirect talks with Israel to bring an end to Israeli attacks on Syria. “There are indirect negotiations (with Israel ...

Syria deployed security forces near Damascus to "restore security and stability" after Israel conducted a new wave of strikes targeting "extremists" who attacked members of Syria's Druze on Wednesday.

Syria strongly condemned foreign intervention in the country following a rare Israeli strike near Damascus on Wednesday amid deadly sectarian violence. Syria said the Israeli strike killed at ...

Two days of sectarian violence in the Damascus area and in southern Syria have left at least 100 people dead, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor. The Britain ...

Community accounted for around 3% of Syria’s pre-war population of 23 million Druze men demonstrate in solidarity with the Syrian Druze community near the border barrier in the village of Majdal ...

Syria's minority groups are in a new era following the fall of the Assad regime. Concerns about sectarian violence have increased recently due to fighting between different groups. Since the ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Israel’s air force struck near Syria’s presidential palace early Friday after warning Syrian authorities not to march toward villages inhabited by members of a ...

In December, a consortium of rebel factions led by the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham unexpectedly toppled the dictator Bashar al-Assad, whose family had ruled Syria for five decades. The new regime in ...

Iran dreamed up a U.S.-style Marshall Plan to rebuild Syria after the civil war. It invested billions to build influence there. Documents from its looted embassy in Damascus reviewed by Reuters ...