Syria's ousted dictator Bashar Assad and his family were members of the secretive religious minority, and used the community's fears and desires to stay in power.

Turkey has launched series of military operations in northern Syria with the goal of securing its southern border from ...

Israeli military vehicles ride through Syria close to the ceasefire line between Syria and Israel, as seen from Majdal Shams ...

Days after five decades of totalitarian rule by the Assad family dynasty ended, I went to Damascus, Syria. Two decades ...

A review of a year filled with headlines that few in the national security and intelligence space could have imagined, one ...

The fall of the Assad dynasty after 54 years in power, and the winding up of the Baath party, was a major setback for both ...

A down to earth liturgical battering awaits us after Christmas. No more "Away in the Manger". Nor sweet, and posh, little ...

In Bethlehem, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, festive decorations were absent for a second consecutive year.

Dr. Azmi Bishara, General Director of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, presented his vision for Syria's ...

Risk of all-out war may not be imminent, but MPs and defence insiders have urged the Government to bolster military ...

Prologue Quite by accident, a neighbor said to me that the New York Times had a lengthy opinion piece in support of animal ...

Researchers in Siberia are conducting tests on a juvenile mammoth whose remarkably well-preserved remains were discovered in ...