Villa Tehilla is renowned for not fitting precisely into the category of a boutique hotel or of a resort. Twenty years ago, ...

Syria's ousted dictator Bashar Assad and his family were members of the secretive religious minority, and used the community's fears and desires to stay in power.

Germany is ready to help Syria’s new rulers establish a unified security force that includes Kurdish-led forces, Berlin’s ...

After fifty-four years of Assad family dictatorship collapsed in a few days, a new Syria is going to be born. Every decent ...

Sharaa, until recently known as Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, is an Islamist who started out in al-Qaida. He is therefore still ...

BEHIND THE LINES - Ankara appears set on a two-sided strategy to unify Syria under the rule of its Sunni Islamist client ...

Israel seized the mountainous region from Syria in 1967, and most of the world considers it occupied Syrian territory.

Some worry that sudden influx could disrupt their idyllic rural way of life; some local Druze, loyal to Syria or their own ...

Twinkling lights, stars, bells and revolutionary flags are strung above the ancient streets of the old city of Damascus.

Nestled in the Golan Heights, the Druze communities that came under Israeli control in 1967 are torn between the hope of reuniting with their loved ones on the other side of the border and anxiety ...

Israel has a security and strategic stake in an alliance with the Kurds in Iraq and Syria, as well as supporting the Kurds in Iran and the Druze community in Syria. Strong alliances with these ...