BEIRUT: Hundreds of angry protesters in southern Syria smashed the statue of Syria’s late president on Monday as they they marked the 2015 assassination of a prominent anti-government Druze leader. The protests in the province of Sweida, where the Druze community represents the majority of...

An Iranian soldier from the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) was killed in Syria, according to Iranian media on Monday.   The semi-official Fars News Agency identified the soldier as Yahya Rostami, who was killed on August 31.  The agency, however, did...

Nearly four million Syrians students in regime-controlled areas returned to school Sunday, braving the effects of war, a devastating earthquake and a deep economic crisis. But many children do not have classrooms to go to in a country where many educational facilities have been damaged or...

There were high hopes not so long ago that Turkish-Syrian relations might be revived. This hope will not vanish for good, but an early recovery is not in sight. The relations between these two countries were strained for decades. They started to improve when then-Turkish President Ahmet...