MIDDLE Eastern leaders and their Western allies have long warned that Islamic State (IS) could exploit the fall of the Assad ...

Revenge attacks against deposed president Assad’s heterodox Alawite sect led local evangelicals to model reconciliation ...

AT LEAST 25 people were killed and 63 wounded as a suicide bomber opened fire at worshippers in a Greek Orthodox church in ...

Areas within the Idlib province are still being developed, Abu Tarek explains, and, unlike under the Assad regime, it’s ...

Russia is using the Russian Orthodox Church in Africa as a tool of hybrid influence, building pro-Kremlin networks under the ...

Syrian farmers hoped for some reprieve after Islamist rebels ended Assad' 24 years of autocratic rule in December, but a ...

Key members of the 'Axis of Resistance' have so far avoided direct involvement in the latest regional flare-up, due to ...

As rebels were advancing on Damascus ... Three days after Trump’s meeting with Sharaa, Syria announced it had raided IS hideouts in the country’s second city, Aleppo, killing three militants, ...

Aleppo: Rebels 'take control' of airport as thousands of fighters seize most of Syria's second-biggest city. Opposition fighters entered the country's second-largest city on Friday where they ...

The rebels who are now Syria’s de facto rulers have started to make their mark on the country’s government. They took control of Aleppo just two weeks ago, but already police officers are in ...

After 13 years of civil war, Syria's opposition militias sensed an opportunity to loosen President Bashar al-Assad's grip on power when they communicated to Turkey plans for a major offensive.

Rebels led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) captured Aleppo last week in a lightning offensive against President Bashar al-Assad's forces, raising fears in Syria's second-largest city.