Syria’s Islamist leaders pledged to respect religious freedom despite their radical past. Many Christians and Shiites are weighing whether to trust them.

Now, foreign countries are trying to steer Syria’s new de facto leaders toward an inclusive government free of sectarian ...

Since Islamist rebels overthrew the Assad dictatorship in Syria, Egypt, with parallels in its own recent history, has watched ...

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

Syria has faced such transitions before. Unless secular, pro-democracy advocates learn from the past, we risk falling into ...

Tracing history sometimes allows us to better understand today’s events and anticipate those that might occur later. What is happening in Syria today is not isolated from the conflicts and ...

Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, has been named as Syria’s president for a transitional period.

Syria's rich history of peaceful coexistence is a natural blueprint for interfaith governance after the sham pluralism of the ...

Syrian history presents many lessons for Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the radical Islamist group now leading a transitional process there, and those who wish to see a peaceful, secular and democratic Syria.

Amid the Netherlands' plans for forced repatriation, The New Arab spoke with the Mousalli family about their life in Europe and fears of returning to Syria ...

One expert says her views are ‘so wildly fringe that her potential appointment as DNI is genuinely alarming’, Richard Hall ...

The changes, announced Wednesday, affect first-to-12th-grade schoolbooks in all Syrian schools, with a focus on history, religion and science textbooks. The Education Ministry under the country ...