Once Syria's most influential minority, Alawites struggle to move on from their association with a hated dictator.

Syria's new authorities are using Islamic teachings to train a fledgling police force, a move officers say aims to instil a ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan held a telephone conversation late on ...

The move to put religion at the center of policing risks seeding new rifts in a diverse country awash with guns after 13 years of civil war and alienating foreign governments they have been trying ...

Syria's new authorities are training a fledgling police force - with a focus on Islamic teachings.Officers brought into Damascus from their former rebel enclave in Idlib are also asking applicants ...

Syria’s first post-Assad protests broke out on Dec. 25 after a video claiming to show the destruction of an Alawite shrine ...

Following the fall of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad last month, US-backed Kurdish forces have been under mounting ...

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — As Syria begins recovering from 50 years of autocratic rule by the Assad family, an international ...

As it struggles to rebuild Syria’s police force and maintain law and order, the new regime of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, is integrating Islamic teachings in the training of recruits.

The new Syrian regime can only be trusted if it concedes meaningful decentralization to the country’s minority groups.

Three-quarters of Syria’s 23 million citizens are Sunnis, one-tenth are Alawites, and the rest are a mix of Christians, Ismaili Shiites and Druze. Shambos said the situation inside Syria remains ...