About 40,000 individuals, primarily the wives, female relatives and children of male Islamic State suspects, are held in the ...

Lebanon's Sunni leader and former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, who suspended his political activity more than three years ago, ...

Groups that refuse to lay down their arms and submit to the defence ministry's authority will play no part in a national ...

U.S. assistance for managing and securing camps in northeastern Syria with Islamic State-linked prisoners "cannot last ...

Qatar's President Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani made the first official visit to Syria after the interim government was ...

Moderacy suits Western hopes and those of several Arab states such as Egypt. But there are flaws with the notion that the leader of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) is a progressive, inclusive interim ...

Because of its religious diversity and bloody history during the civil war, the city is considered a test case for the new ...

The specter of an uncontrolled jihadist resurgence is just one of the potential challenges facing Syria as the new government ...

Armed factions in Syria are reacting to a recent decision by the new leadership in Damascus to dissolve all armed groups.

Syria is a Sunni-majority country, but its Christian and Muslim minority sects account for between 15 and 25 per cent of the population. The Christian population has declined significantly since ...

Smaller, more moderate groups were pushed to merge with jihadist groups under extremist leadership. By the end of 2012, the ...