Kurdish-led Syrian group rejects Islamist authorities' new constitution framework
The Kurdish-led group which governs northeast Syria on Friday rejected a constitutional declaration issued by the new ...
Dozens of Syrian Druze make a rare visit to Israeli-controlled Golan Heights
Dozens of clerics and others from Syria's minority Druze community have crossed into the Israeli-controlled side of the Golan ...
Syria's Four Wars Explained 14 Years On
Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.
Qatar will send natural gas to Syria to increase its meager electricity supply
Syria's state-run SANA news agency says Qatar will provide natural gas supplies to Syria with the aim of generating 400 ...
Syrian leader signs constitution that puts the country under an Islamist group’s rule for 5 years
Syria’s interim president on Thursday signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule for five ...
In Netanyahu’s new Middle East, Syria could become Israel’s biggest strategic gain
Just hours after Islamist rebels ousted longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in December, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...
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Documents Unearthed After Assad’s Fall Show Syrian Spy Agency Reacting to Israel’s Pager Attack on Hezbollah
As pagers and walkie-talkies exploded in Lebanon, Syrian security forces were directed to keep communication devices away ...
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Syria Hangs By A Thread While US Sanctions Block Reconstruction
Major US Sanctions are a major barrier to reconstruction in Syria. With violence erupting on the country’s coast, US policymakers remain skeptical of lifting sanctions on the new government, which ...
The Economist22h
After the bloodshed, can Syria’s president unite his country?
Sharaa, seemed to waver between his jihadist past and his presidential present. After the first day of violence he made a ...
The Cipher Brief8h
Playing the Role of ‘Good Shepherd’ in a Post-Assad Syria
The U.S., Israel, Russia and Turkey all face major questions as they look to the future of a post-Assad Syria.
Three buses carrying Druze from Syria cross into Israeli-controlled area of the Golan Heights
The visit comes as Israel says it is supporting the minority in a country now ruled by Islamists. But many Druze have ...
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'Are you Alawite?': Killings in Syrian village of Arwa raise fears of endless sectarian violence
An eerie silence hangs over Arza, a mainly Alawite village in the rural countryside of Hama province in eastern Syria. All of ...