Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.

Without global support, millions of Syrian refugees and displaced persons will see their dream of return ruined, warns Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

The violence in Alawite areas is one sign of Syria’s fragmentation. In the north, Kurdish groups have their own enclaves and ...

Sharaa, seemed to waver between his jihadist past and his presidential present. After the first day of violence he made a ...

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