The residents of the Syrian village of Sharifa lay in puddles and rivulets of blood. . Most had been executed with shots to ...

MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights — Dozens of clerics and others from Syria’s minority Druze community crossed into the Israeli-controlled side of the Golan Heights Friday for the first time in decades.

It upheld the central role of Islamic law and provided for freedom of opinion. But the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Council said it did not go far enough in protecting the rights of Syria's ...

Syriacs are an ethnic group historically settled in regions that now include modern-day Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. Their ...

Syria's 14-year civil war has undergone yet another rapid series of shifts, with violence sweeping the west coast homeland of deposed President Bashar al-Assad's minority Alawite Muslim sect and ...

The Kurdish-led and U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, which controls much of Syria's oil-rich northeast, signed a deal with the Damascus government on Monday to join Syria's new state ...

(New York) – Summary executions and other atrocities have taken place in Syria’s coastal region ... They found shelter in a house on the edge of a village. “We’re hungry and cold but ...

Just north of Southport, the 'quaint' village of Churchtown with its 'old ... and an array of delightful cafes and pubs. The medieval feel of Churchtown is so well-preserved that if not for ...

Syria's defence ministry says it has thwarted loyalists of ousted president Bashar al-Assad, after 1,000 people were killed in days of violence that saw mass killings and deadly clashes. Violence ...

On Monday, Syrian state media reported that military police arrested two fighters who were shown in a video clip “committing illegal and bloody violations against civilians in a coastal village.” ...

Security forces of the interim Syrian government ride through Latakia on Sunday. (Omar Haj Kadour/AFP/Getty Images) When I interviewed Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church in ...