Up to 10,000 fighters lent muscle during the overthrow of the Assad regime. But their hard-line interpretations of Sunni ...

The strikes were south of Damascus, where Syrian security forces say they are battling gunmen from the religious minority.

Early one evening in late January, 12 masked men stormed the Damascus home of Um Hassan's family, pointed AK-47 assault rifles in their faces and ordered them to leave. When they presented ownership ...

Iran dreamed up a U.S.-style Marshall Plan to rebuild Syria after the civil war. It invested billions to build influence ...

Since Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa seized power in December, hundreds of Alawites have been forced from their private ...

Since Assad was ousted in December, Israel has seized ground in the southwest, vowed to protect the Druze, lobbied the United ...