Once Syria's most influential minority, Alawites struggle to move on from their association with a hated dictator.

As it struggles to rebuild Syria’s police force and maintain law and order, the new regime of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, is integrating Islamic teachings in the training of recruits.

The move to put religion at the center of policing risks seeding new rifts in a diverse country awash with guns after 13 years of civil war and alienating foreign governments they have been trying ...

HTS’s security force claimed that it had foiled a huge car bomb attack by the group on the sensitive Shia shrine of Sayeda ...

The Muhajireen presidential palace in central Damascus, one of the Syrian capital's most beautiful architectural landmarks, ...

After the ouster of Syria's longtime leader Bashar al-Assad last month, Israel's military has taken up a new post in the demilitarized buffer zone created in Syria after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.

In this episode of Unfinished Stories, Hevidar Ahmed visits Damascus to explore one of the biggest threats facing the country ...

Commercial flights between Turkey and Syria have resumed after 13 years with a Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul to Damascus.

THE new rulers of Syria declare the country open for privatisation and foreign investment. In an interview with the Financial Times published today, the country’s foreign minister, Assad al-Shaibani, ...

Every time they appear to be facing significant setbacks or diminishment, Islamists return anew with fresh strategies, ...