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

Abdi, by contrast, came to leadership via associations with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), an organization that Turkey ...

Yet many of his memories of Syria before the civil war are remarkably sweet ... I’ve told Hasan’s story in Map of Hope and Sorrow: Stories of Refugees Trapped in Greece, the book I wrote ...

This is a locator map for Syria with its capital ... killed and wounded scores in Syria since the country’s conflict began in March 2011. Syria’s civil war has killed half a million people and ...

(AP Photo) This is a locator map for Syria with its capital ... southern Syria as Damascus’ new leaders attempt to consolidate control after years of civil war. “Take note: We will not allow HTS ...

In fact, it acted in exactly the same way when Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood came to power in Egypt, transforming its embassy in Cairo into a headquarters for civil ... 900 km ...

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

The attack Thursday near the port city of Latakia reopened the wounds of the country’s 13-year civil war and sparked the worst violence Syria has seen since December, when insurgents led by the ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days.