In her home in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana, Riham Waqqaf spent the night trying to distract her children from the sound ...

The sectarian-tinged violence was directed at a suburb of the Syrian capital with a large population from the Druse minority.

The rapid opening-up of Syria has seen a geographical shift in economic power, stoking tensions in the ethnically and ...

Clashes broke out in a suburb of the Syrian capital early Tuesday between local gunmen belonging to the minority Druze sect and pro-government fighters, leaving at least four people dead, a war ...

F or miles around, as far as the eye can see, the eastern suburbs of Damascus are a sea of undulating rubble and skeletal ...

Several earthquakes rocked Istanbul on Wednesday, with the largest registering 6.2 on the Richter scale, according to ...

A sectarian-fueled killing spree exposed how fragile peace is in Syria, where the government’s control is limited and tension ...

Assad, who ruled over Syria with an iron fist for 24 years, used a private jet to spirit away cash, valuables and ...

Earthquakes, Major Structures, Extensional Faulting, Dead Sea Transform Fault, Jordan Share and Cite: Salameh, E. and Yaseen, ...

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The Alawite Muslim group was seen as privileged during the rule of former leader Bashar Assad but has suffered repeated violence since his fall.

Almost immediately after dictator Bashar al-Assad fled, Syria came under attack. Israeli airstrikes have hit several hundred ...