A second tanker under U.S. sanctions is moored near the Syrian port of Banias and may deliver a diesel cargo from Russia, data shows, as Moscow and Damascus strengthen ties. Moscow backed former ...

The Alawites are seen as religious deviants by the Sunni Islamists, and as remnants of the ousted regime, and their position ...

Syria’s interim government says it has reached a landmark agreement with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to ...

Sharaa blamed pro-Assad groups backed by foreigners for triggering the bloodshed but acknowledged that revenge killings had ...

When I interviewed Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Damascus on Feb. 27, neither one of us knew ...

After a period of relative calm in western Syria, the reported attacks raised the specter of continued sectarian conflict in ...

Moscow and Washington are maintaining contacts over the escalating situation in Syria, Russia’s UN envoy Vassily Nebenzia has ...

As such, the country's leaders are willing "to make peace, even with their former enemies," one Damascus-based diplomat told Reuters. "Moscow still has something to offer for Syria," and is too ...

Russia has sought a rapprochement with Syria’s new rulers, including with an injection of cash for Syria’s central bank.

For years, soldiers from Russia's Hmeimim Air Base in Syria roamed freely through coastal cities. War planes flew from the ...