Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa said Wednesday that his country is holding indirect talks with Israel to prevent recent hostilities from getting out of control. He spoke on his first visit to Europe ...

PARIS (AP) — Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa said Wednesday that his country is holding indirect talks with Israel to ...

Israel has accustomed us to fishing in troubled waters. The Zionist state has long been interested in sowing discord and ...

Syria cannot hope to rebuild itself if it fails in preventing sectarian tensions from erupting into wide-scale violence.

PARIS -- PARIS (AP) — Syria’s interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa arrived in Paris on Wednesday for talks with President Emmanuel Macron. It's his first trip to Europe since taking office in January, ...

The United Arab Emirates has set up a backchannel for talks between Israel and Syria, three people familiar with the matter ...

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa will visit Paris on Wednesday, his first trip to Europe since the overthrow of Bashar ...

One man accused of killing an Alawite during the sectarian violence in March tells the BBC that armed civilians were advised ...

Four BBC Radio Somerset presenters are putting their friendship aside to celebrate Somerset Day with an unusual challenge. Breakfast's Charlie Taylor, morning host Simon Parkin and afternoon ...

The Assad family are Alawites. The fighting led to an outburst of sectarian violence, with hundreds of civilians killed by forces linked to the government, according to two war-monitoring groups.

Hundreds of Alawites were killed in Syria's western coastal region in apparent retribution for a deadly ambush on Syria's new security forces by armed loyalists to toppled Syrian President Bashar ...