The Alawites are seen as religious deviants by the Sunni Islamists, and as remnants of the ousted regime, and their position ...

When I interviewed Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Damascus on Feb. 27, neither one of us knew ...

Syria's Islamist-led government on Monday said it had completed a military operation against a nascent insurgency by Bashar ...

Moscow and Washington are maintaining contacts over the escalating situation in Syria, Russia’s UN envoy Vassily Nebenzia has ...

Russia has sought a rapprochement with Syria’s new rulers, including with an injection of cash for Syria’s central bank.

SHOCKING new videos has shown rifle-wielding gunmen storming the streets of Damascus after 1,500 people have reportedly been slaughtered in Syria’s power vacuum. Horrifying clashes between ...

But Russia quickly moved to maintain its ties with Damascus in the weeks after Assad fled to Moscow, with an eye on keeping its two key bases in the country's coastal region. A senior Russian ...

As such, the country's leaders are willing "to make peace, even with their former enemies," one Damascus-based diplomat told Reuters. "Moscow still has something to offer for Syria," and is too ...

David McCloskey’s third spy thriller, “The Seventh Floor,” is as gripping and suspenseful as his two earlier novels.