After a 14-year civil war, half the population displaced from their homes, and at least 300,000 dead, Syria was ready for ...

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

You can blame the European colonial powers for the last major redrawing of the borders in the region in 1918-20, after the ...

In Syria, the Druze take pride in their fierce independence. They were heavily involved in revolts against Ottoman and French ...

"A confrontation, possibly even a small-scale military one, may occur between Israel and Turkey," one expert told Newsweek.

Glen Frederic Matheson, whose great-grandfather served as officer in Ottoman army, adopts name Murat after receiving Turkish ...

You can blame the European colonial powers for the last major redrawing of the borders in the region in 1918-20, after the collapse of the Ottoman empire. The new borders paid little heed to the ...

Yet, Alawites are not a particularly prosperous group. France, which got Syria in the carve-up of the Ottoman empire after World War I, deliberately recruited Alawites for its new colonial army ...

With Russia primarily focused on Europe, Turkey is poised to fill this void with relative ease, as they have already been ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Thousands of Syrians poured into the streets and public squares on Saturday to mark the 14th anniversary of the start of the country’s civil war for the first time since ...

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