The U.S. and European Union are seeing an increasing number of radicalized young Muslims going to  Syria  to fight, a development that raises the danger that they will return to conduct terrorist attacks at home. The war is providing both a rallying point and a training ground for...

Two al Qaida-linked rebel groups in Syria appear to be distancing themselves from each other in what may be an effort by the Nusra Front, which the United States has branded as an international terrorist organization, to remain relevant amid signs that major portions of the Syrian population...

A rocket strike near a Shia Muslim shrine in Damascus killed a custodian of Zainab (AS) on Friday, activists and residents said, in an attack that could inflame sectarian tensions in Syria’s 28 month old conflict. Opposition activists and residents said shrapnel killed Anas Romani, the...

Most people in Damascus know the influence of "Shiites" in Shaghour and Al-Amin area, and it was aggravated in latest years by the sectarian schools, mosques and centers which educating the Shiite sect principles.  Some years ago, it was a taboo to speak about religious sections....