Deadly violence in Syria has once again spotlighted the Alawites, a secretive religious minority tied to Bashar al-Assad.

Anyone surprised by the news of this week’s bizarre leak has forgotten the long record of security failures in Trump’s first ...

At least seven deaths in a border area. The fragility of a frontier that has long been a free zone for trafficking and illicit trade. Fears of an escalation with the Jewish state and US manoeuvres for ...

Sahar Diab had visited Damascus’ famed Umayyad Mosque previously. But as the Syrian lawyer went there to pray during her ...

Latest bombardment comes as the death toll from Israel’s devastating war on Gaza crosses 50,000 since October 2023.