Since 2015, Issam Buwaydani has been head of Jaish al-Islam, a group that fought against the now-ousted ruler Bashar al-Assad and once controlled the Eastern Ghouta area near Damascus. After Syria's ...

Authorities in Syria have assured a thorough investigation into clashes that are reported to have killed 13 people in a town near the capital, Damascus, largely populated by the country’s Druze ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Syria’s defence ministry has opened applications for Assad-era soldiers to enlist in the army, reaching ...

Alawites say they are being evicted from homes at gunpoint Human rights groups assert widespread abuses of Alawites New Syrian leader promises to create inclusive country DAMASCUS, April 30 ...

Jaish al-Islam was one of the main opposition groups fighting Bashar al-Assad's government before Islamist-led fighters toppled him in December but it has also been accused of terrorising civilians in ...

Speaking in the UN Security Council, Filippo Grandi said in conflicts across the world in places like Sudan, Ukraine, Myanmar, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Haiti, "violence has become ...

The cuts “will affect our operations, the size of our organization, and, most worryingly, the very people we are called to protect,” UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi wrote in an internal email.