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 ...

The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions in neighboring Iraq to reconsider their push for U.S. forces ...

President Trump has inherited an evolving chemical and biological threat landscape, but not one he hasn’t encountered before.

Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Syria's Hama in 1982, during one ...

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

In his 2005 speech, Vladimir Putin’s statement that ‘the collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical ...