As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both overjoyed and anxious. Assad and his family are Alawite, an offshoot of Shia ...

The UN envoy to Syria warned the country's Islamist-led caretaker regime Wednesday against making mistakes that would imperil the political transition underway after decades of dictatorship under ...

After the downfall of the Assad regime, how can Syrians reconcile and form an inclusive government for all citizens? NPR speaks with Mona Yacoubian with the United States Institute of Peace.

Some refugees may return to Syria because they want to live there again. But many won’t—for the same reasons many refugees ...

The stability of Syria, at the heart of the Middle East, is in the interests of all. It is time for regional actors, not external ones, to lead the change There are decades when nothing happens and ...

Israeli forces entered the area — which lies in a U.N.-patrolled buffer zone in the Golan Heights that was established by a ...

Climate change has become one of the most pressing global challenges, not only affecting ecosystems and economies but also ...

More than 100 combatants were killed over the last two days in northern Syria in fighting between Turkish-backed groups and Syrian Kurdish forces, a war monitor said on Sunday.

Syria’s main international airport in Damascus, the capital, will reopen next week, the new government said Saturday, as it ...

Tensions are high on Syria’s border with Lebanon. The ouster of President Bashar al-Assad led to worry that violence could ...

The two Mideast powerhouses have been trying to block the rise of Islamist groups in the region for two decades. The rebel ...

The civil war has led to the kind of security vacuum that has been exploited by criminal gangs around the world — whether in Libya or Syria, Central America or Central Africa ...