Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.

Sharaa, whose fighters led the offensive that toppled the Assad family dynasty in December, has said he will build an ...

Just hours after Islamist rebels ousted longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in December, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...

After Syria’s longtime autocratic ruler was toppled late last year, the man who led rebel groups to victory immediately faced ...

Sharaa’s government following massacres over the weekend, Syrian authorities announce the formation of a national ...

The conflict poses a challenge for the new interim president as he tries to unify Syria and extend his authority over the ...

Turkey is still bombing armed Kurdish insurgents in Iraq and Syria, even after their leader urged them to lay down their arms ...

Some Syrian factions argue that the only viable path to rebuilding the country is a federal system — one that divides governance along geographic and ethnic lines to ensure greater autonomy for ...

"If there's no major and concrete international action to stop these terrorist acts," the former Syrian diplomat said, "greater ethnic cleansing would definitely spread." ...

Hundreds of civilians have been killed in Syria in the last 48 hours, the deadliest eruption of violence since the fall of the Assad regime in December. The U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human ...

In Greater Syria, ancient Aramean kingdoms once dominated the region, and their language had become the international diplomatic lingua franca. Under the Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians ...