The UN's special envoy for Syria warned on Thursday that the creation of a local committee to oversee governance in Sweida ...

President Ahmed al-Sharaa has issued a decree to set up a temporary system to select members of the Syrian parliament, amid criticism that it is undemocratic ...

Tensions in Syria are rising, and the Druze – one of the country’s smallest minorities – are caught in the middle. The Druze are both ...

Syrians are returning to their country after the fall of the Assad regime. However, the millions who have returned home, some ...

ISIS was largely defeated in Syria in 2019. However, it still has cells that operate. The US-led Coalition continues ...

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The UN has seen a resurgence of activity by the Islamic State in the Sahel as well as Somalia, Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.

A massacre of Christians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has shone a spotlight on extremist groups operating across central Africa. This type of massacre is not new. Extremist groups, some of ...

There was no immediate confirmation that ISIS' top leader, Abu Hafs al-Qurayshi, was the target, but Syrian state media ...

The overthrow in December last year of Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s dictator, brought a fleeting sense of unity to a country ...

A foolish miscalculation during a demonstration in Tripoli, Syria, caused HMS Victoria to be violently rammed by another ...