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 ...
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 Netanyahu stood at edge of the occupied Golan Heights and looked out over ...
The National on MSN44m
In the Syrian village of Arza, a sectarian massacre awakens fear of endless violence
An eerie silence hangs over Arza, a mainly Alawite village in the rural countryside of Hama province in eastern Syria. All of ...
BBC finds Syrian families sheltering at Russian airbase from sectarian attacks
She says he was shot dead by the gunmen who abducted him.Dalaal is from Syria's Alawite minority sect, which was targeted in a surge of sectarian violence since last week."Everyone knew he had ...
Arabian Gulf Business Insight on MSN1h
Qatar to supply Syria with natural gas to ease power crisis
Qatar has signed an agreement to supply natural gas to Syria via Jordan, a significant step towards addressing the war-torn nation’s energy crisis. The agreement, signed between Qatar Fund for ...
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Turkish top officials make sudden trip to Damascus
Turkey's top diplomat, defense minister and intelligence chief paid a sudden visit to Damascus on Thursday, days after Syria's interim government reached a deal to integrate a U.S backed Kurdish-led ...
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 ...
Syria's interim president signs temporary constitution amid ongoing conflict
A recent explosion of deadly violence and reprisals has raised the pressure on domestic leaders and international allies to ...
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.
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 ...
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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 ...
Opinion
Syria shows dangerous signs of Iraq’s post-Saddam chaos
Democracy and peace are not guaranteed when a dictator falls — sometimes, a country’s fate turns uglier and messier.