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

The power is on in most neighbourhoods for only an hour or two a day. Syria’s generating capacity has dropped from nine gigawatts in 2010 to less than two today. The power plants that are still ...

Hama, now in modern-day Syria, was first occupied around 6,500 B.C. and was strategically positioned along communication routes that contributed to its longevity into the years of the Ottoman Empire.

Welcome to the Daily News Brief, CFR’s flagship morning newsletter summarizing the top global news and analysis of the day. Subscribe ... Local and global responses. Syria’s interim ...

In our news wrap Sunday, a fourth day of clashes in western Syria is testing the country’s new leadership, Israel says it’s cutting off the electricity it sends to Gaza, Secret Service officers shot a ...

sometimes holding several two-hour sessions a day to fit in all of Syria's 14 regions over the course of a week. Five of the committee members are either in HTS, or close to the group, and there ...

Welcome to the Daily News Brief, CFR’s flagship morning newsletter summarizing the top global news and analysis of the day. Subscribe ... transitional justice, and Syria’s economic model.

The government has tried to play down sectarian tensions. A total of 48 people were killed in fighting between Syrian security forces and pro-Assad fighters on Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for ...

Not much is known about his early life. He was born in the fourth century in Mesopotamia (modern-day Syria). Scholars speculate that he may have been the son of a pagan priest. He was brought to ...