Syria's interim government is facing difficulty in rebuilding the nation one month after the fall of the Bashar al-Assad ...

The fields along Syria’s Mediterranean coast once produced wheat, tomatoes and olives to feed the country. They were a ...

In Syria’s Alawite heartland, the story of Zarda Khadour mirrors the plight of countless others. A retired cook from Masyaf, she spent 30 years working at a chi ...

After the downfall of the Assad regime, how can Syrians reconcile and form an inclusive government for all citizens? NPR speaks with Mona Yacoubian with the United States Institute of Peace.

Egypt gave up its role as the leader of the Arab World after the signing of the Camp David Accords with Israel in 1978, just ...

Alawites in Syria are facing a violent backlash, stoking fears of wider sectarian instability in a divided Syria after the fall of the Assad regime.

2024 saw the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the escalation of the war in Ukraine, the sudden reignition of the Syrian civil war ...

The Minister of Displaced in the caretaker government, Issam Sharaf al-Din, revealed that 420,000 displaced Syrians returned to their country during the Israeli war on Lebanon and 60,000 displaced ...

From Christmas trees being toppled by Syria's transitional government, to local women sold as slaves by terrorist "head choppers", to reports about a leading Syrian rebel leader being secretly Jewish ...

How the rebels treat the sizeable Alawite population, will be some kind of litmus test of whether the takeover of Damascus ...

Syria’s minority Alawite community is gripped by terror as reports spread of killings and disappearances under the country’s new Islamist rulers.

Alawites are seen as having been loyal to the Assad regime, which was toppled earlier in December. And the protests, as NPR's Diaa Hadid reports from Damascus, touch at the heart of a bigger crisis.