People cross the Nahr al-Kabir river, forming the border between Syria's western coastal province and northern Lebanon in the Hekr al-Daher area on March 11, 2025, as families of Syria's Alawite ...

Syria's battle lines are shifting amid a White House transition that has left a power vacuum. Trump has been a critic of the US's military presence in northeast Syria. In 2019, he ordered a ...

Armed groups killed entire families, including women and children, during an outbreak of sectarian violence in Syria last week, the United Nations’ human rights office said on Tuesday.. The ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon, March 11 (UPI) --Syria's fragile transition from decades of the Assad family's brutal rule has been greatly shaken with an outburst of sectarian retribution and killings, posing a ...

In the past, Abdulsalam would have tapped the Barada, an ancient river that winds its way down the Anti-Lebanon Mountains to Damascus, where it breaks into seven tributaries feeding the verdant ...

Grave consequences await the West if Trump follows through with normalizing relations with Jolani’s new regime. President Donald Trump has decided to lift American sanctions on Syria. The ...

History What Went Wrong. Syria had long been under the control of the Ba'ath Party, which ruled the country since 1971. Bashar al-Assad took power in July 2000, following the death of his father ...

Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Alawite Syrians, who fled the violence in western Syria, walk in the water of the Nahr El Kabir River, after the reported mass killings of Alawite minority members, in Akkar ...