Pope Leo XIV said the terrorist attack on a Greek Orthodox church in Damascus was “vile” during his Wednesday Audience at the ...

However, Alawites follow Muhammad Ibn Nusayr, who was a 10th-century disciple of the 11th imam and declared himself to be the “gate” of divine inspiration. As a result, Alawites have been called ...

A month after leaving Kola Bay, aircraft of the Kuznetsov began operations against Islamic State and Al-Nusra terrorist ...

A little-known Sunni Muslim extremist group claimed responsibility on June 24 for a weekend suicide attack against a church ...

The whipsaw chain of events involving Iran, Israel and the United States that culminated in a surprise ceasefire has raised ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu likes to remind people that in the disorienting first days after Hamas’ Oct_ 7, ...

The new EU sanctions target Assad-linked financiers and ex-military officers over human rights abuses and support for ...

After one of the most brutal wars of this century, a new flag flies across Syria: the emblem of the rebels who toppled the dictator Bashar al-Assad. Ben Hubbard, The New York Times’s Istanbul bureau ...

Authorities blamed the Islamic State for a suicide bombing at a church outside Damascus, citing preliminary investigations.

After decades of dictatorship and 13 years of civil war, can Syria put itself back together? Our journalists traveled the ...

Israel, Russia, Turkey, and the United States have all deployed troops in Syria since 2011. How long will they stay in the ...

The European Union imposed on Monday an asset freeze and a ban on travel to the EU on five people linked with toppled Syrian ...