The main hospital in the southern Syrian city of Sweida is overwhelmed with trauma patients and working without adequate ...

Jordanian authorities are inadvertently fuelling an "internal crisis" with their decision to crack down on Palestine ...

Clashes broke out last week that were sparked by tit-for-tat kidnappings between armed Bedouin clans and fighters with the ...

Before the eruption of sectarian violence in southern Syria, Saber Abou Ras taught medical sciences at a university in the ...

Assad’s fall, deadly sectarian clashes in southwestern Syria have exposed one of the biggest challenges to the country’s postwar recovery — the new leader’s failure to forge national unity.

The U.S. State Department has called for an immediate investigation into the recent death of a U.S. citizen in Syria, and ...

Syrian and Israeli officials spoke about de-escalating the situation in Syria during U.S.-mediated talks in Paris on Thursday, U.S. envoy Tom Barrack said.

A scholar of religious minorities and the Middle East explains the historical persecution and marginalization of the Alawite ...

"Trust must exist first and foremost," Syrian Democratic Council representative to the U.S. Sinam Mohamad told Newsweek.

The Druze live in pockets across the Middle East, and Israeli members of the community want Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ...

Even if it does not, the incident seems a grim turning-point in Syria’s transition. It has reinforced fears that the state is incapable of protecting minority groups. It may also have ripple effects ...

This is the closest Turkey and the insurgents have come to peace since the PKK took up arms to fight for a Kurdish homeland ...