The United Nations Security Council held a briefing on the political and humanitarian situations in Syria on Wednesday. UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen and Assistant Secretary-General for ...

Sharaa’s government following massacres over the weekend, Syrian authorities announce the formation of a national ...

Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.

- The Christians are split into a number of denominations - some of them tiny communities with ancient roots in pre-Islamic ...

Ahmed al-Shara’s unlikely path from membership in Al Qaeda to head of state has raised questions about how he intends to govern Syria. Ahmed al-Shara’s unlikely path from membership in Al ...

In March 2011, demonstrations against Assad's rule swept across Syria, demanding greater freedoms and end to corruption. After the government cracked down, the revolt spiralled into a civil war ...

Jordan's King Abdullah II received Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa upon his arrival at Marka Airport for a visit to the Kingdom, with the two leaders proceeding directly to Raghadan ...

THE civil war in Syria, a nightmare for most Syrians, is a dream come true for the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), the latter name being variously translated as "Greater Syria" or "the ...

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Nowhere does this seem truer than in neighbouring Syria. Names of al-Qaeda-affiliated groups such as Jahbat al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) have become familiar ...

In the summer of 1860, an unprecedented wave of sectarian violence swept across Greater Syria. Druze militias sacked Maronite Christian villages, killing eleven thousand people. Muslim mobs killed ...