After violence broke out between the current and past regimes in Syria, fearful residents have waded across a river to take ...

Syria’s interim president has signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule for five years during a transitional phase.

In a story of collaboration and community, researchers identified intergenerational epigenetic changes caused by war and ...

United Nations-backed human rights experts allege Israel has caused "disproportionate violence against women and children" during the war against Hamas in Gaza, ...

An NPR investigation finds that more than 350 Syrian children were secretly placed in orphanages across the capital, Damascus, when the Assad regime was in power. Now, some of them cannot be found.

The killings occurred in the heartland of Syria’s Alawite minority, escalating after a nascent insurgency formed against the ...

For more than two years, a junior officer in the Syrian military, his sister and a friend risked their lives to collect evidence of the atrocities being committed by the regime. Their work changed the ...

Fearing for their lives, Syrian men, women and children waded through a river to safety in Lebanon, among hundreds of people ...

Syria's interim leader has appealed for unity, as violence and revenge killings continued in areas loyal to ousted former ...

Assad belongs to the sect ... Ali, who lived in Kusour with his wife and 14-year-old daughter, fled his home with the assistance of security forces. "They came to our building.

Mr. Rubio and Trump adviser Elon Musk engaged in a war of words with Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski over the ...

The deaths underscore the deep challenges faced by Syria since Assad’s fall ... The wife and 4-year-old daughter of one of the mayor’s sons was also there. “One of the militants told ...