After violence broke out between the current and past regimes in Syria, fearful residents have waded across a river to take ...

The killings occurred in the heartland of Syria’s Alawite minority, escalating after a nascent insurgency formed against the ...

Syria’s interim president has signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule for five years during a transitional phase.

An NPR investigation finds that more than 350 Syrian children were secretly placed in orphanages across the capital, Damascus, when the Assad regime was in power. Now, some of them cannot be found.

United Nations-backed human rights experts allege Israel has caused “disproportionate violence against women and children” ...

In a story of collaboration and community, researchers identified intergenerational epigenetic changes caused by war and ...

The Observatory said 250 pro-Assad fighters were also killed ... It identified the woman as Zarqa Sebahiya, 86, and later spoke to her daughter, who told the Observatory that she had been guarding ...

For more than two years, a junior officer in the Syrian military, his sister and a friend risked their lives to collect evidence of the atrocities being committed by the regime. Their work changed the ...

Fearing for their lives, Syrian men, women and children waded through a river to safety in Lebanon, among hundreds of people ...

Syria's interim leader has appealed for unity, as violence and revenge killings continued in areas loyal to ousted former ...

The tiny Armenian community had hoped that Syria’s long civil war had concluded with the toppling of President Bashar ...