The Druze community once played a major role in shaping Syria’s modern history, might be on the verge of switching sides to revive its role as one of the leading revolutionary cities against despotism. Until recently, many people believed that there is no revolution in Sweida,...

Syrian opposition activists have posted photographs and video that they say shows an improvised chlorine bomb to back up claims that President Bashar al-Assad's forces used chemical weapons in two attacks last week. Rebels and the government have blamed each other for the...

Patrick Seale, a British journalist and controversial Middle East historian, died on Friday in London at the age of 83, ten months after being diagnosed with brain cancer. Born in Belfast, Seale spent the first decade and a half of his life in Syria, where his father was a...

Both sides in Syria's bloody civil war said Saturday that a rural village fell victim to a poison gas attack, an assault that reportedly injured scores of people amid an ongoing international effort to rid the country of chemical weapons. What exactly happened Friday in Kfar Zeita, a...