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

Any withdrawal of US military forces and equipment from Syria by new US President Donald Trump would be a “nightmare” ...

Iraq is trying to convince powerful armed factions in the country that have fought U.S. forces and fired rockets and drones ...

Turkish soldier deployment in Syria will continue, Defense Ministry sources said Thursday, as terrorist groups remain a ...

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

The leaders of two previously rival Kurdish groups have met in northern Iraq in an apparent step toward reconciliation at a ...

Inclusivity and moderation are indeed immediate priorities for Syria, but a big national vote is not. Democracy does not ...

Depending on need, redeployment of troops in Syria or their assignment to different regions may be considered, says ministry ...

An official with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) said on Thursday the militant group would agree to leave northeastern ...

Syria's interim rulers are trying to form a united national army after the fall of Bashar Assad late last year ...

Donald Trump with Erdogan (left), and Gen Mazloum Abdi Battles are raging in the northeast region of Syria, between the ...

Her family had lost hope she would ever return after Islamic State fighters took her and thousands of other Yazidi women and ...