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.

With the fall of the Assad regime and the rise of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and other extremist Sunni Islamist groups, fears have ...

Catch up quick: Al-Shaybani is right-hand-man to Ahmad Al-Sharaa, who is both the de-facto ruler of Syria and the leader of ...

A deluge of false or misleading information about Syria has flooded social media. Local and international actors are ...

Such scenes are encouraging as observers ponder what kind of Syria Mr Sharaa and his men will forge. If Mr Sharaa revives ...

After tacitly recognizing the new Syrian government mostly led by representatives of the Islamist Hay at Tahrir al-Sham HTS ...

Saudi Arabia supported various ultra-conservative groups during Syria’s civil war, including Jaysh al-Islam, created with the ...

Others demanded that Syria's newly appointed authorities act in a non-sectarian way, without prejudice against the country's Alawites. "No to burning holy places and religious discrimination.

The instant collapse of Assad’s rule will reshape the geopolitics of the Mideast for years to come. Within Syria itself, the challenge is how to replace the bloodthirsty past and current revolutionary ...