Assad’s fall, deadly sectarian clashes in southwestern Syria have exposed one of the biggest challenges to the country’s postwar recovery — the new leader’s failure to forge national unity.

A Syrian fact-finding committee on Tuesday confirmed that 1,426 people - mostly civilians, including many Alawites - were ...

When Sunni rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad last December, they vowed to form an inclusive Syrian government by March. Sunnis comprise around 75 percent of Syria with the remaining 25 percent made ...

A video purporting to show the execution-style murder of American Hosam Saraya raises new questions about the Trump-endorsed ...

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

Shia vs Sunni in Syria: Syria, a country which constitutes 74% Sunni population was being ruled by Bashar al-Assad, affiliated with the Alawite sect, a syncretic sect with links to early Shi'ism ...

When Sunni rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad last December, they vowed to form an inclusive Syrian government by March. Sunnis comprise around 75 percent of Syria with the remaining 25 percent made ...

He had posted a video on his Facebook account in August 2023 criticising Bashar al-Assad for his corrupt rule. He was arrested soon after, and only released when Islamist-led forces freed ...

Syria’s Interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa signed off on a constitutional declaration for a five-year-long transitional period on Thursday, hoping to centralize power in order to unify the ...

The new Sunni leader has no template, as the century has been riddled with colonial rule, ... after the ousting of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria, December 23, 2024.

As Syria witnesses “one of the biggest massacres” since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, its new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has vowed to hunt down Assad loyalists and promised an investigation into ...