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 ...

The Sudanese government has suspended its participation in the global hunger-monitoring system on the eve of a report that’s ...

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

Syrian television dramas offered a compelling – and surprisingly critical – look at Syrian life under Bashar al-Assad. They ...

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

History tells us that where a fragmented coalition of armed groups finds itself in a political vacuum, more violence is ...

Almost everyone in the region expects America to remain engaged. The region may be ready for a real push for a comprehensive ...

Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel accused the head of the group that led the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad in Syria of being "a wolf in (sheep's) clothes" because of his jihadist history.

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 ...

Assad's regime was overthrown continues to astonish political analysts and strategists. Last weekend, a report that went ...