Syria’s sudden shift in leadership has introduced the Islamist world’s rising star: Syrian rebel leader Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani, the leader of HTS. Despite Jawlani’s soft-spoken promises of peace and ...

The Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats after World War I, and the recent collapse ...

Christians in Syria are struggling with how publicly to celebrate Christmas this year. There is a lot unknown about the interim government ruling Syria and their tolerance of religious minorities.

Angry protests broke out Wednesday in Syria over a video showing an attack on an Alawite shrine, with a war monitor saying ...

Bel Trew spent days travelling across Syria – from Aleppo in the north, to the capital Damascus and Deraa in the south – ...

The Middle Eastern country had been ruled by outside powers and dictators for centuries before its revolution was realized.

The interim government has urged reconciliation among the country’s different ethnic factions — mainly Arabs and Kurds — and ...

He further pointed to the fact that there are important religious centers in Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, which are considered sacred for Christianity all over the world. Related: Timeline of ...

Israel sees Assad's fall as a chance to revive the idea of a Druze state, stoke sectarianism in Syria and seize more ... taking advantage of the ethnic and religious mosaic of the area.

It is also important to ask how the rise of a truly Islamic state — a caliphate — will affect the population of Syria, especially the land’s many smaller religious groups, including various kinds of ...

But tensions remain high, and it will likely be a long time before we truly know what the future holds for Syria’s Christians and other religious and ethnic minorities. What is certain ...