Once Syria's most influential minority, Alawites struggle to move on from their association with a hated dictator.

“It’s strategically extremely important. There is no substitute for mountains.” The summit of Mount Hermon lies in Syria, in a buffer zone that separated Israeli and Syrian forces for fifty ...

QUNEITRA PROVINCE, GOLAN HEIGHTS, Syria — The Golan Heights is a rocky terrain dotted with olive trees and grazing cows, and ...

Israeli troops who seized strategic ground in southern Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad will remain on the summit of ...

The Israeli war minister says the regime’s troops, who seized ground at a so-called “buffer zone” inside the strategic Syrian ...

“This is the highest place in the region, looking upon Lebanon, upon Syria, Israel,” said Efraim Inbar, director of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS). “It’s strategically ...

Their destination was a mountain in the Masyaf area in western Syria, roughly 125 miles from Israel’s northern border. The choppers carrying the troops from the Shaldag special forces unit flew at an ...

The Druze-majority province of Swaida in southern Syria has been one of the calmest regions in the country during nearly two years of popular insurrection, but the last month has seen an upswing ...

Hundreds of Syrian refugees in Turkey are making a return to Syria every day, according to the Turkish Interior Ministry. But the majority are waiting to see how the new leadership takes shape.

the IDF entered the buffer zone on the Golan Heights separating Israel and Syria and liberated the highest peak of Mount Hermon, raising the blue-and-white banner over the tallest mountain in ...

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani said discussions with a Qatari delegation in Damascus Thursday included ...