"If there's no major and concrete international action to stop these terrorist acts," the former Syrian diplomat said, "greater ethnic cleansing would definitely spread." ...

In Greater Syria, ancient Aramean kingdoms once dominated the region, and their language had become the international diplomatic lingua franca. Under the Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians ...

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

Syria’s new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa – formerly ... and with the support of the Trump administration is looking for greater ambition,” Natasha Hall, a senior fellow with the Middle East ...

UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen briefed the Security Council on Tuesday, pointing to the devastating violence on the ...

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 ...

Umit Bektas/Reuters Turkey has also emerged in the past few months with greater influence in Syria because of its ties to the rebel group that overthrew Mr. al-Assad. The P.K.K.’s decisions over ...

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 ...

The death toll from two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more than 1,000, a war ...

The nascent Syrian administration has meanwhile also sought greater security guarantees from Turkey. Turkey had previously maintained a largely ambiguous policy toward Sharaa's now-dissolved HTS ...

"Syria's interim authorities must hold the perpetrators ... engaged with Sharaa after he came to power but said that any greater normalization would depend on meeting conditions including the ...