Ever since its revolution in 1979, Iran has cultivated a network of proxies and friends throughout the Middle East. For years ...

"To be honest, the Alawites clearly ask for international protection," a former Syrian diplomat told Newsweek.

A Syrian military operation against remnants of the former Assad regime has now ended, having sparked some of the worst ...

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The new Syrian government has signed a deal with to integrate the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia into the ...

The Kurdish-led and U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, which controls much of Syria's oil-rich northeast, signed a deal ...

The violence in Syria in recent days has shown how difficult it will be to unite a fractured country with deeply held ...

The attack Thursday near the port city of Latakia reopened the wounds of the country’s 13-year civil war and sparked the ...

Fighting erupted on Thursday between Syria's new security forces and loyalists of the former government of toppled president ...

Syria has suffered its worst bloodshed since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power, with more than 1,000 people reported ...

The spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry condemned the recent deadly attacks on civilians in Syria, saying the ...

Three months after Syria’s 14-year-old civil war ended, and as the holy month of Ramadan begins, euphoria is being replaced ...