Head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed, Iraqi prime minister says
The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national ...
Analysts see flaws in Syria's temporary constitution
The Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration in northern and eastern Syria was the first to reject the constitution, calling it ...
Three months since the fall of Assad, is Syria headed towards stability or chaos? Explained
Syria has entered a three-month period of political and military uncertainty following the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime ...
Dozens of Syrian Druze make a rare visit to Israeli-controlled Golan Heights
Dozens of clerics and others from Syria's minority Druze community have crossed into the Israeli-controlled side of the Golan ...
Syrian foreign minister visits Iraq, calls for reopening of border
Syria's foreign minister made his first visit to Iraq since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, and called on Baghdad to reopen the ...
Council on Foreign Relations2d
Syria’s Surge in Violence Does Not Signal a New Civil War—for Now
A spate of attacks involving loyalists to former ruler President Bashar al-Assad has spurred concerns of a return to ...
Syria flashes signs of peril and promise in a week of violence and diplomacy
After Syria’s longtime autocratic ruler was toppled late last year, the man who led rebel groups to victory immediately faced ...
In Netanyahu’s new Middle East, Syria could become Israel’s biggest strategic gain
Just hours after Islamist rebels ousted longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in December, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood at edge of the occupied Golan Heights and looked out over ...
The Economist1d
After the bloodshed, can Syria’s president unite his country?
Sharaa, seemed to waver between his jihadist past and his presidential present. After the first day of violence he made a ...
UN News1d
‘Brighter future hangs in the balance’ in Syria after 14 years of war
The Constitutional Declaration issued by Syria’s caretaker authorities marks a pivotal moment in the country’s turbulent ...
NBC News5d
Hundreds of civilians have been killed in Syria. Here's what we know.
Hundreds of civilians have been killed in Syria in the last 48 hours, the deadliest eruption of violence since the fall of the Assad regime in December. The U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human ...
In Syria, New Fighting Opens Old Wounds
After a period of relative calm in western Syria, the reported attacks raised the specter of continued sectarian conflict in ...