René Wildangel takes a look at who exactly are the Islamists that drove Syrian dictator Assad from the country.

Officials say that Turkish Airlines will resume its flights to Damascus, Syria, next week after a halt of more than a decade.

Syria's new authorities have detained an Egyptian Islamist militant who fought against Bashar al-Assad's rule over threats he ...

Hamas and Israel have agreed to a six-week ceasefire deal to release dozens of hostages according to officials.

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said the extent of atrocities committed in Syria is hard to believe and ...

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk called on Wednesday for a Syrian national reconciliation process to ...

The outgoing acting director of the National Counterterrorism Center says the U.S. is facing an elevated threat of terrorism.

Amid the turmoil, Israel expanded its occupation of Syrian land in the south of the country, expelling hundreds of Syrians ...

Germany's Development Minister Svenja Schulze promised to support Syria's "peaceful and stable development" as she visited Damascus on Wednesday to meet with the interim authorities.

The group "25 January Revolutionaries" announced a statement on Tuesday saying that its Syria-based Egyptian leader Ahmed ...