In recent days, leaked recordings and documents have provided the rough outline of a conspiracy to launch an insurgency in the Alawite-dominated coastal region of Syria. Behind the plan are a number ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Syrian citizens celebrate and raise Syrian flags on January 20, 2026 in Raqqa, Syria. (photo credit: Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images ...

Barack plays a key role as US ambassador to Turkey, Special Envoy to Syria, and one of the key figures in American policy in the Levant, while also keeping constant dialogues with Gulf state actors.

Will a reduction in US forces in the area lead to a power vacuum? Is the new Syrian army prepared to assume the security responsibilities necessary in the desert area where Tanf is located? In 2018, ...

In the course of a decade, the number of people forcibly displaced globally has doubled, to almost 80 million people. One in six of them is a Syrian. Behind these figures lie deep and complex stories ...

Sectarian clashes escalated in Syria’s predominantly Druze region of Sweida on Saturday, with machinegun fire and mortar shelling ringing out after days of bloodshed as the Islamist-led government ...

By Feras Dalatey, Timour Azhari, Laila Bassam and Mahmoud Hassano DAMASCUS/BEIRUT, March 3 (Reuters) - Syria's defense minsitry said it reinforced its border with Lebanon, and eight Syrian and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

A “mass escape” took place last month from Syria’s al-Hol camp that holds tens of thousands of ISIS-linked families, following the withdrawal of Kurdish forces, Syrian TV reported, amid reports ...

In Syria, violence continued between rival factions even after a ceasefire deal. Government troops withdrew overnight from a region as Israel said it would not allow Syrian forces south of Damascus, ...