Since the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2011, the nation has become a battleground for competing hegemons. The United ...

People in the Jaramana suburb of Damascus always thought something strange was happening at the nearby state security facility. Walled off and heavily guarded, the government compound was off limits ...

Inyuma y’aho reta ya Syria itembagarijwe mu kwezi guheze, ivyateje akaga gakomeye cane ku runani rufashwe mu mugongo na Irani ...

How the rebels treat the sizeable Alawite population, will be some kind of litmus test of whether the takeover of Damascus ...

Al-Monitor's top articles of 2024 delivered exclusive reporting on the Middle East's tumultuous year. From Assad's fall in ...

A Russian Telegram channel has claimed that Bashar al Assad may have been poisoned, sparking online speculation about the ...

Such scenes are encouraging as observers ponder what kind of Syria Mr Sharaa and his men will forge. If Mr Sharaa revives ...

The instant collapse of Assad’s rule will reshape the geopolitics of the Mideast for years to come. Within Syria itself, the challenge is how to replace the bloodthirsty past and current revolutionary ...

Syria’s minority Alawite community is gripped by terror as reports spread of killings and disappearances under the country’s new Islamist rulers.

Iran’s security chief Ali Akbar Ahmadian said a new group would emerge in Syria to fight Israel following the fall of president Bashar al-Assad, state media reported.

Yet the world hesitates to rejoice. Why? Because the dominant rebel faction in post-Assad Syria is Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) ...

CAIRO - Syria's newly appointed foreign minister, Asaad Hassan al-Shibani, on Monday urged Kuwait to reopen its embassy in ...