As Syria’s new Islamist rulers reshape the way schools teach the nation’s history, students struggle to navigate the traumas ...

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

The United Nations human rights chief has called for the lifting of Western sanctions imposed on Syria over its yearslong ...

NATO ally Turkey has emerged as the dominant state power in a new Syria, and is seeking to press its advantage by bombing and ...

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk called on Wednesday for a Syrian national reconciliation process to ...

The president-elect may want to withdraw U.S. troops from the area, but if he does, he’d put a victory he’s proud of at risk.

But as a new government takes shape in Damascus, Syrians and foreign observers alike worry about how inclusive, ...

A key dam in northern Syria has become a flash point in the conflict between Kurdish forces and Turkish-backed armed groups.

Svenja Schulze was in Damascus to discuss a new program that would see German doctors train their Syrian colleagues. Many ...

The director of the U.N. World Food Program says that some governments are hesitant to boost funding for urgent humanitarian ...

A fresh drive to bring an end to Turkey's 40-year Kurdish conflict has seen politicians from the pro-Kurdish party meet ...

Talks aimed at ending a 40-year-old militant conflict have fostered peace hopes in Turkey but the precarious situation of ...