Relations between Beirut and Damascus remain tense — as they have been for decades past, a time during which Syria failed to ...

A lot has happened in just a year on both sides of the Lebanon-Syria border. A lightning offensive by Islamist insurgents in Syria toppled longtime autocrat Bashar Assad and brought a new gov ...

Amidst the turmoil in Gaza, Israel’s war against Hamas and Hezbollah, security concerns in the Red Sea following attacks by ...

Foreign fighters and others who joined Syria’s civil war from abroad have petitioned the new Islamist-led government for ...

Explore the newly uncovered tunnels used by Assad in Syria. Discover escape routes, underground bunkers, and hidden luxury ...

Government-aligned factions were found to have committed violent acts against Alawite civilians during Syria’s coastal ...

A U.N.-backed commission has found widespread and systematic violence against civilians in Syria’s coastal region ...

A U.N.-backed commission that investigated sectarian violence on Syria's coast earlier this year found that there was ...

A scholar of religious minorities and the Middle East explains the historical persecution and marginalization of the Alawite ...

Rewarding them with Syrian citizenship could alienate Syrians and foreign states whose support the new government. Foreign ...

The Assad family ruled Syria for over five decades. A Reuters series reveals how the country transformed after the dictatorship’s end.