Philippines: Rodrigo Duterte, the former president who oversaw a bloody antidrug crackdown, was arrested in Manila today on ...

The Alawites are seen as religious deviants by the Sunni Islamists, and as remnants of the ousted regime, and their position is precarious in post-Assad Syria. During the sectarian bloodbath that ...

A columnist who has worked at The Washington Post for four decades resigned on Monday after she said the newspaper's ...

Fierce fighting broke out between Syrian security forces and armed groups opposed to the new regime in Damascus in Latakia ...

Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa said mass killings of members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad’s minority sect were a ...

As of March 9, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 973 civilians were killed in reprisal attacks. Read more at straitstimes.com.

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days.

The United Nations Security Council will meet behind closed doors on Wednesday over Iran's expansion of its stock of uranium ...

The overnight clash in Damascus appeared to have been contained, but it has heightened concerns that the violence sweeping ...

A Syrian military operation against remnants of the former Assad regime has now ended, having sparked some of the worst ...

Bianna Golodryga speaks with Rim Turkmani, Director of Syria Conflict Research Programme at LSE, on the recent outburst of ...

Syria said that it had ended a government military operation in response to insurgent attacks that resulted in a spiral of ...