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

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

If the new regime in Damascus keeps pressuring the Druze to hand over their weapons, the ensuing battles could lead to a ...

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

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

Armenia is monitoring the latest developments in Syria, the Foreign Ministry said on Monday amid renewed concerns about 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 ...

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

Syria holds a significant place in French foreign policy, especially when considered in the context of the historical ...

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