Members of the small religious sect find themselves caught between two forces that many of them distrust: the new, ...

Air travel across Germany has been disrupted due to a one-day strike by workers at 13 German airports. The so-called “warning ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemns violence by ‘radical Islamic terrorists’ and expresses support for minority sects in ...

Over 1,300 people have been killed in fierce clashes between government forces and gunmen loyal to the Assad regime, ...

Syria’s interim government has announced the end of a days-long military operation against insurgents loyal to ousted ...

When the new government took over, it dismissed the Assad regime police and other forces, leaving a security vacuum. Now, ...

The announcement comes as the fighting between pro-Assad militias and members of the security forces killed more than 1,000 ...

More than 1,000 people, mostly Alawite civilians, have been killed by security forces in just a few days, throwing into ...

Armed men loyal to the Syrian government carried out field executions and spoke of purifying the country, according to ...

The violence has pitted the Islamist-led government's security forces against fighters from Assad's Alawite minority. The ...

When I interviewed Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Damascus on Feb. 27, neither one of us knew ...