Sharaa's hopes of stitching Syria back together under the rule of his Islamist-led government are complicated by the country's mix of sectarian and ethnic groups.

The Syrian Catholic archbishop of Homs in Syria, Jacques Mourad, has issued an urgent appeal for the future of the Christian ...

The strikes in Syria were a rare attack on forces of the new government, which is led by Islamist former rebels who toppled ...

Researchers claim to have a method of using AI to date the Dead Sea Scrolls — this could have implications for the way we ...

Clashes between Bedouin tribes, government forces and members of a minority sect in Syria have left dozens dead and once ...

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After 14 years of war, Syria is one of the most heavily mined countries in the world, with a race against time to make urban and rural areas safe again ...

Violence has once again broken out in fractured Syria between forces allied with the new Islamist regime and fighters from one of the country's religious minorities. Dozens of members of the Druze ...

However, the clashes in March and May show that Damascus needs a new mechanism to address emerging crises that can derail Syria’s critical state-building project.

Was the Garden of Eden based on a real place? And if so, where exactly might it have been? These questions have puzzled biblical scholars for centuries. Now, a new study using computational analysis ...

Syria’s new transitional government was sworn in Saturday nearly four months after the Assad family was removed from power and as the new authorities in Damascus work to bring back stability to ...