Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week have marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and renewal, at a time ...

An Iranian man jumps over a firework celebrating Chaharshanbe Souri, or Wednesday Feast, an ancient Festival of Fire on the ...

When he arrived in the town of Masaoudiyeh in northern Lebanon earlier this month, fleeing massacres on Syria's Mediterranean ...

The death toll from two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad and ...

Assad, himself an Alawite who sought to present himself as a protector of Syria's minorities, was ousted on December 8 in a lightning offensive led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. The ...

President Vladimir Putin sent a message to Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa backing efforts to ensure Syria's territorial ...

Supporters of the overthrown Syrian president Bashar al-Assad carried out attacks on members of the defense and interior ...

Syria’s Alawites – some 10% of the population – were ... Hassan Abdel Ghani said Friday that “senior war criminals” were “scattered in the mountains with no refuge except the courts, where you will ...

The "decision to return to the McKinley name" for Alaska's mountain is a "slap in the face of recent efforts to acknowledge ...

The U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR ... as “the largest collective act of revenge in the coast and its mountains,” with the death toll expected to rise.