Syria has a real but narrow chance to establish a democracy. The moment is ripe to force Russia and Iran into a compromise.

Limited and temporary' takeover of demilitarized buffer zone is response to entry of armed militants after Assad's fall, in ...

Egypt’s 1979 peace treaty with Israel and the 1980s emergence – with Iranian aid – of Lebanon’s Hizbullah prompted Tehran to ...

Rebel forces in Syria captured the capital Damascus and toppled the regime of President Bashar Assad in a lightning-quick ...

Celebrations in Syria May Be Premature The speed of the Assad dictatorship’s collapse stunned even the opposition. But the ...

A hip bone in a blown-out building, part of a spine amid some debris, a few foot bones in a worn-out sock. The Tadamon district of Damascus is littered with bones, after what residents and rights ...

Travis Timmerman, 29, from Missouri, was found this week by residents wandering barefoot in a suburb south of Syria's capital ...

Twenty-three-year-old Syrian military conscript Farhan al-Khouli was badly paid and demoralized. For years, the Islamist ...

Syria's interim government vowed on Thursday to institute the "rule of law" after years of abuses under ousted president ...

The U.N. General Assembly has overwhelmingly approved resolutions demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and expressing ...

Many Syrians remain apprehensive about how religious minorities, including Christians, will be treated in a new political ...

Nadia’s eyes were full of tears as she crossed the border from Syria to Lebanon. She was finally going to see her son. A ...