Russia castigated Syria's new leaders in a closed United Nations briefing this week, two sources briefed on the meeting told ...

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

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.

Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.

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.

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

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

Syria's interim President Ahmed Sharaa said mass killings of members of ousted President Bashar al-Assad's minority sect were ...

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 ...

David McCloskey’s third spy thriller, “The Seventh Floor,” is as gripping and suspenseful as his two earlier novels.