Syria has been wracked by a new wave of deadly sectarian violence that has placed the spotlight on the Druze minority at the ...

P LUMES OF SMOKE rose over Damascus on July 16th as Israeli warplanes struck Syria’s capital. Targeting the presidential ...

Sharaa's hopes of stitching Syria back together under the rule of his Islamist-led government are complicated by the ...

Germany is no longer the number-one destination for asylum seekers in the EU after the end of the Assad regime led to a drop in Syrians applying for protection in the bloc, a report confirms.

An Israeli minister has called for Syria's President Ahmad Al Shara to be "eliminated", after a ceasefire failed to put an ...

Millions of Syrians fled during the civil war more than a decade ago. After the fall of dictator Bashar al-Assad in December, many are considering returning home. But what is left to return to?

Troops locate explosives, rockets at 'key' commando bases in operation aimed at keeping arms from being smuggled to Lebanon; ...

Israel continues to bomb Syria, ostensibly to support Druze forces in the southwest, even after ceasefire is declared.

The Druze are a prominent religious community of more than a million people spread across Syria, Lebanon and Israel, who for ...

News about Bashar al-Assad, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Assad's 24-year rule ended abruptly as a coalition of rebel forces, led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), launched a rapid ...

At least 30 people were killed and around 100 were injured in sectarian violence that exploded in Syria's southernmost As-Suwayda Governorate, the Middle Eastern country's Ministry of Interior said ...