Sham, which overthrew the Assad regime last month, reflects rising U.S. alarm that ISIS could mount a resurgence.

While it’s unclear what exact political path Syria will take, the dilemmas the country faces are similar to the experiences ...

Once Syria's most influential minority, Alawites struggle to move on from their association with a hated dictator.

The Washington Post reports that U.S. intelligence recently helped thwart a planned ISIS attack on a prominent Shiite shrine ...

Since Assad’s fall in the first week of December, Israel has destroyed a large proportion of Syria’s strategic stock of ...

After the ouster of Syria's longtime leader Bashar al-Assad last month, Israel's military has taken up a new post in the ...

The end of a half-century of Assad family rule in Syria marked a turning point in the countrys deadly 13-year civil war after ...

Syria has faced such transitions before. Unless secular, pro-democracy advocates learn from the past, we risk falling into ...

The fact of the matter is, though, the Russo-Iranian alliance in the Middle East has been dealt a serious blow with the loss of Assad’s regime in Syria. That is now being made all the more evident by ...

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

The international community should focus on empowering Syria’s local civil society groups and advocating for women’s rights ...

The new interim Syrian government says it will hunt down and punish senior security officials and others, but concern is ...